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

with jquery:

$(':checkbox[readonly]').click(function(){
            return false;
        });

it still might be a good idea to give some visual hint (css, text,...), that the control won't accept inputs.