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 rather not use Disabled, since I want the checked check boxes to be submitted with the rest of the form, I just don't want the client to be able to change them under certain circumstances.

Answer 1

Try using disabled attribute of the checkbox type:

<input type="checkbox" name="option" value="0" disabled="disabled" />

<input type="checkbox" name="option" checked value="0" disabled="disabled" />

The disabled attribute when set to "disabled", it does not allow anyone make any changes to the checkbox, thus making the checkbox read only.