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.

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Answer 1

Building on the above answers, if using jQuery, this may be an good solution for all inputs:

I'm using this with Asp.Net MVC to set some form elements read only. The above works for text and check boxes by setting any parent container as .readonly such as the following scenarios: