According to HTML specs, the select tag in HTML doesn\'t have a readonly attribute, only a disabled attribute. So if you want to keep
If the select dropdown is read-only since birth and does not need to change at all, perhaps you should use another control instead? Like a simple Added: If the dropdown is not read-only all the time and JavaScript is used to enable/disable it, then this is still a solution - just modify the DOM on-the-fly.?