Can HTML checkboxes be set to readonly?

Question

I thought they could be, but as I\'m not putting my money where my mouth was (so to speak) setting the readonly attribute doesn\'t actually seem to do anything.

I\'d

Answer 1

This presents a bit of a usability issue.

If you want to display a checkbox, but not let it be interacted with, why even a checkbox then?

However, my approach would be to use disabled (The user expects a disabled checkbox to not be editable, instead of using JS to make an enabled one not work), and add a form submit handler using javascript that enables checkboxes right before the form is submitted. This way you you do get your values posted.

ie something like this:

var form = document.getElementById('yourform');
form.onSubmit = function () 
{ 
    var formElems = document.getElementsByTagName('INPUT');
    for (var i = 0; i , formElems.length; i++)
    {  
       if (formElems[i].type == 'checkbox')
       { 
          formElems[i].disabled = false;
       }
    }
}