How to add a section without editor

[rmeshksar]

Hi, Sorry if it is not a right place to ask question.
I would like to have a section in the generated Json, so the content is pre-defined and user should not be able to see and edit that section in editor.
How should I address this in the schema.
I have already defined that with default values but they appear in the editor and can be modified.
Thanks.

[jdorn]

The proper way to force a specific value is to use enum with a single enumerated value instead of default.

{
  "type": "string",
  "enum": ["always this value"]
}

You can use enum for entire objects or arrays too. Here's an example:

http://rawgit.com/jdorn/json-editor/master/demo.html?schema=N4IgLgngDgpiBcID2AjAVjAxmEAaEUATkrIWAJYwDOCoMAJuWAIYoA2MA+lVhUgHa1w0OIlQZseAsVIVqQsAAtyNeKEiwEIKmELl+Acyn0YAM2YBXNjkQqABAyasOIAL7v8RBmf0NuvcgEFES1xXikYfgsAWwQAbXVlVW0AoPwVLX4kMAdGFnY4VwBdd1cgA

There is currently no built in way to hide sections of the editor from the user, but you can do it with CSS if you add an id to the part of the schema you want to hide and the following CSS rule:

[data-schemaid="your_id"] {
  display: none;
}

note If you are submitting the form via HTML and not using the getValue api method, object/array enums will not work. You must only use string/number/integer enums. I'm planning to fix this in the future.

[rmeshksar]

Thanks so mush. It worked great.

[jdorn]

I just added the ability to hide editors directly (without using CSS rules or schema ids).

{
  "type": "object",
  "options": {
    "hidden": true
  }
}