How can I make an entire HTML form “readonly”?

Question

I have two pages with HTML forms. The first page has a submission form, and the second page has an acknowledgement form. The first form offers a choice of many controls, whi

Answer 1

I'd rather use jQuery:

$('#'+formID).find(':input').attr('disabled', 'disabled');

find() would go much deeper till nth nested child than children(), which looks for immediate children only.