What's the difference between disabled=“disabled” and readonly=“readonly” for HTML form input fields?

Question

I have read a bit on this, but I can\'t seem to find anything solid about how different browsers treat things.

Answer 1

Disabled means that no data from that form element will be submitted when the form is submitted. Read-only means any data from within the element will be submitted, but it cannot be changed by the user.

For example:

This will submit the value "Bob" for the element "yourname".

This will submit nothing for the element "yourname".