Why can't radio buttons be “readonly”?

Question

I would like to show a radio button, have its value submitted, but depending on the circumstances, have it not editable. Disabled doesn\'t work, because it doesn\'t submit t

Answer 1

JavaScript way - this worked for me.

Reason:

1. $('#YourTableId').find('*') -> this returns all the tags.

2. $('#YourTableId').find('*').each(function () { $(this).attr("disabled", true); }); iterates over all objects captured in this and disable input tags.

Analysis (Debugging):

1. form:radiobutton is internally considered as an "input" tag.

2. Like in the above function(), if you try printing document.write(this.tagName);

3. Wherever, in tags it finds radio buttons, it returns an input tag.

So, above code line can be more optimized for radio button tags, by replacing * with input: $('#YourTableId').find('input').each(function () { $(this).attr("disabled", true); });