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

I happened to notice the solution given below. In found it my research for the same issue. I don't who had posted it but it wasn't made by me. It uses jQuery:

$(document).ready(function() {
    $(":checkbox").bind("click", false);
});

This would make the checkboxes read only which would be helpful for showing readonly data to the client.