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

My solution is actually the opposite of FlySwat's solution, but I'm not sure if it will work for your situation. I have a group of checkboxes, and each has an onClick handler that submits the form (they're used for changing filter settings for a table). I don't want to allow multiple clicks, since subsequent clicks after the first are ignored. So I disable all checkboxes after the first click, and after submitting the form:

onclick="document.forms['form1'].submit(); $('#filters input').each(function() {this.disabled = true});"

The checkboxes are in a span element with an ID of "filters" - the second part of the code is a jQuery statement that iterates through the checkboxes and disables each one. This way, the checkbox values are still submitted via the form (since the form was submitted before disabling them), and it prevents the user from changing them until the page reloads.