[whatwg] Can we make checkboxes readonly?

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>> An app may dynamically set inputs or groups of inputs to readonly based
>> on app state.  When you submit, though, it's impossible to tell (without
>> hacks) whether a checkbox was checked-but-disabled or just unchecked.
>> Handling the form data is *much* easier if you just get all the data,
>> regardless of whether, as a UI convenience, your app temporarily set
>> some of the inputs to readonly.
>
> That's a use case for submitting disabled check boxes, not for read-only
> checkboxes, IMHO. (The same could be said for disabled text controls.)

That's more-or-less what @readonly does - the input becomes "disabled"
but still submits.

~TJ