Why are read-only form fields in Django a bad idea?

Question

I\'ve been looking for a way to create a read-only form field and every article I\'ve found on the subject comes with a statement that \"this is a bad idea\". Now for an in

Answer 1

The reason you don't want to do this is because someone can change your disabled field to enabled and then submit the form. You would have to change the save function as to not insert the "disabled" data.

The standard way to do this is to not put the name in an input, but to display it as text

    

        Name
        
Johnny Five
    
    

        ....

This is not possible in django.

I say if you really trust your userbase to not "mess" with things then go for it, but if its a public facing website with possible sensitive data then stay away.