Can HTML checkboxes be set to readonly

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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

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You could always use a small image that looks like a check box

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I happened to notice the solution given below  In found it my research for the same issue   I don t who had posted it but it wasn t made by me  It uses jQuery     document  ready function             checkbox   bind  click   false         This would make the checkboxes read only which would be helpful for showing readonly data to the client

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Latest jQuery has this feature      txtname   prop  readonly   false

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Why not cover the input with a blank div on top    lt div id  checkbox wrap  gt      lt div class  click block  gt  lt  div gt      lt input type  checkbox    gt    lt  div gt    then something like this with CSS    checkbox wrap     height 10px     width 10px         click block     height  10px     width  10px     position  absolute     z-index  100

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Simplest  in my view    onclick  javascript  this checked   this defaultChecked

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lt input type  checkbox  onclick  this checked  this checked   gt    But you absolutely MUST validate the data on the server to ensure it hasn t been changed

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I know that  disabled  isn t an acceptable answer  since the op wants it to post   However  you re always going to have to validate values on the server side EVEN if you have the readonly option set   This is because you can t stop a malicious user from posting values using the readonly attribute   I suggest storing the original value  server side   and setting it to disabled  Then  when they submit the form  ignore any values posted and take the original values that you stored     It ll look and behave like it s a readonly value   And it handles  ignores  posts from malicious users   You re killing 2 birds with one stone

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onclick  javascript  return false

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another  simple solution     lt  -- field that holds the data -- gt   lt input type  hidden  name  my name  value  1    gt    lt  -- visual dummy for the user -- gt   lt input type  checkbox  name  my name visual dummy  value  1  checked  checked  disabled  disabled    gt       disabled  disabled    disabled true

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Some of the answers on here seem a bit roundabout  but here s a small hack    lt form id  aform  name  aform  method  POST  gt       lt input name  chkBox 1  type  checkbox  checked value  1  disabled  disabled    gt       lt input id  submitBttn  type  button  value  Submit  onClick  return submitPage     gt   lt  form gt     then in jquery you can either choose one of two options     document  ready function          first option  you don t need the disabled attribute  this will prevent       the user from changing the checkbox values        input name   chkBox 1     click function e           e preventDefault                   second option  keep the disabled attribute  and disable it upon submit         submitBttn   click function               input name   chkBox 1     attr  disabled  false               aform   submit                      demo  http   jsfiddle net 5WFYt

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Belated answer  but most answers seem to over complicate it   As I understand it  the OP was basically wanting    Readonly checkbox to show status  Value returned with form    It should be noted that    The OP preferred not to use the disabled attribute  because they  want the checked check boxes to be submitted with the rest of the form   Unchecked checkboxes are not submitted with the form  as the quote from the OP in 1  above indicates they knew already  Basically  the value of the checkbox only exists if it is checked  A disabled checkbox clearly indicates that it cannot be changed  by design  so a user is unlikely to attempt to change it  The value of a checkbox is not limited to indicating its status  such as yes or false  but can be any text    Therefore  since the readonly attribute does not work  the best solution  requiring no javascript  is    A disabled checkbox  with no name or value  If the checkbox is to be displayed as checked  a hidden field with the name and value as stored on the server    So for a checked checkbox    x000D   x000D   lt input type  checkbox  checked  checked  disabled  disabled    gt  x000D   lt input type  hidden  name  fieldname  value  fieldvalue    gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    For an unchecked checkbox    x000D   x000D   lt input type  checkbox  disabled  disabled    gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    The main problem with disabled inputs  especially checkboxes  is their poor contrast which may be a problem for some with certain visual disabilities  It may be better to indicate a value by plain words  such as Status  none or Status  implemented  but including the hidden input above when the latter is used  such as    x000D   x000D   lt p gt Status  Implemented lt input type  hidden  name  status  value  implemented    gt  lt  p gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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This presents a bit of a usability issue   If you want to display a checkbox  but not let it be interacted with  why even a checkbox then    However  my approach would be to use disabled  The user expects a disabled checkbox to not be editable  instead of using JS to make an enabled one not work   and add a form submit handler using javascript that enables checkboxes right before the form is submitted  This way you you do get your values posted   ie something like this   var form   document getElementById  yourform    form onSubmit   function            var formElems   document getElementsByTagName  INPUT        for  var i   0  i   formElems length  i                   if  formElems i  type     checkbox                       formElems i  disabled   false

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Very late to the party but I found an answer for MVC  5   I disabled the CheckBox and added a HiddenFor BEFORE the checkbox  so when it is posting if finds the Hidden field first and uses that value  This does work     lt div class  form-group  gt        Html LabelFor model   gt  model Carrier Exists  new    class    control-label col-md-2               lt div class  col-md-10  gt                 Html HiddenFor model   gt  model Carrier Exists                 Html CheckBoxFor model   gt  model Carrier Exists  new    disabled    disabled                    Html ValidationMessageFor model   gt  model Carrier Exists             lt  div gt    lt  div gt

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lt input type  radio  name  alwaysOn  onchange  this checked true  checked  checked  gt   lt input type  radio  name  alwaysOff  onchange  this checked false   gt

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I would have commented on ConroyP s answer  but that requires 50 reputation which I don t have   I do have enough reputation to post another answer   Sorry   The problem with ConroyP s answer is that the checkbox is rendered unchangeable by not even including it on the page   Although Electrons Ahoy does not stipulate as much  the best answer would be one in which the unchangeable checkbox would look similar  if not the same as  the changeable checkbox  as is the case when the  disabled  attribute is applied   A solution which addresses the two reasons Electrons Ahoy gives for not wanting to use the  disabled  attribute would not necessarily be invalid because it utilized the  disabled  attribute   Assume two boolean variables   checked and  disabled    if   checked  amp  amp   disabled      echo   lt input type  hidden  name  my name  value  1    gt    echo   lt input type  checkbox  name  my name  value  1          checked    checked  checked               disabled    disabled  disabled             gt      The checkbox is displayed as checked if  checked is true   The checkbox is displayed as unchecked if  checked is false   The user can change the state of the checkbox if and only if  disabled is false   The  my name  parameter is not posted when the checkbox is unchecked  by the user or not   The  my name 1  parameter is posted when the checkbox is checked  by the user or not   I believe this is what Electrons Ahoy was looking for

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If you want ALL your checkboxes to be  locked  so user can t change the  checked  state if  readonly  attibute is present  then you can use jQuery       checkbox   click function          if  typeof    this  attr  readonly        undefined             return false              Cool thing about this code is that it allows you to change the  readonly  attribute all over your code without having to rebind every checkbox   It works for radio buttons as well

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Or just      your selector   click function evt  evt preventDefault

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Most of the current answers have one or more of these problems    Only check for mouse not keyboard  Check only on page load  Hook the ever-popular change or submit events which won t always work out if something else has them hooked  Require a hidden input or other special elements attributes that you have to undo in order to re-enable the checkbox using javascript    The following is simple and has none of those problems      input type  checkbox     on  click keyup keypress keydown   function  event        if   this  is   readonly       return false          If the checkbox is readonly  it won t change   If it s not  it will   It does use jquery  but you re probably using that already     It works

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lt input type  checkbox  readonly  readonly  name         gt    with jquery       checkbox readonly    click function                return false                it still might be a good idea to give some visual hint  css  text       that the control won t accept inputs

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I used this to achieve the results    lt input type checkbox onclick  return false   onkeydown  return false     gt

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Building on the above answers  if using jQuery  this may be an good solution for all inputs    lt script gt        function                  readonly input   attr  readonly    readonly                readonly textarea   attr  readonly    readonly                readonly input checkbox   click function   return false                 readonly input checkbox   keydown function      return false               lt  script gt    I m using this with Asp Net MVC to set some form elements read only  The above works for text and check boxes by setting any parent container as  readonly such as the following scenarios    lt div class  editor-field readonly  gt       lt input id  Date  name  Date  type  datetime  value  11 29 2012 4 01 06 PM    gt   lt  div gt   lt fieldset class  flags-editor readonly  gt        lt input checked  checked  class  flags-editor  id  Flag1  name  Flags  type  checkbox  value  Flag1    gt   lt  fieldset gt

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Just use simple disabled tag like this below    lt input type  checkbox  name  email   disabled gt

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No  but you might be able to use javascript events to achieve something similar

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The main reason people would like a read-only check-box and  as well  a read-only radio-group is so that information that cannot be changed can be presented back to the user in the form it was entered    OK disabled will do this -- unfortunately disabled controls are not keyboard navigable and therefore fall foul of all accessibility legislation  This is the BIGGEST hangup in HTML that I know of

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If you want them to be submitted to the server with form but be not interacive for user  you can use pointer-events  none in css  works in all modern browsers except IE10- and Opera 12-  and set tab-index to  -1 to prevent changing via keyboard  Also note that you can t use label tag as click on it will change the state anyway    x000D   x000D  input type  checkbox   readonly    x000D    pointer-events  none  important  x000D    x000D   x000D  td   x000D    min-width  5em  x000D    text-align  center  x000D    x000D   x000D  td last-child   x000D    text-align  left  x000D    x000D   lt table gt  x000D     lt tr gt  x000D       lt th gt usual x000D       lt th gt readonly x000D       lt th gt disabled x000D     lt  tr gt  lt tr gt  x000D       lt td gt  lt input type checkbox   gt  x000D       lt td gt  lt input type checkbox readonly tabindex -1   gt  x000D       lt td gt  lt input type checkbox disabled   gt  x000D       lt td gt works x000D     lt  tr gt  lt tr gt  x000D       lt td gt  lt input type checkbox checked   gt  x000D       lt td gt  lt input type checkbox readonly checked tabindex -1   gt  x000D       lt td gt  lt input type checkbox disabled checked   gt  x000D       lt td gt also works x000D     lt  tr gt  lt tr gt  x000D       lt td gt  lt label gt  lt input type checkbox checked   gt  lt  label gt  x000D       lt td gt  lt label gt  lt input type checkbox readonly checked tabindex -1   gt  lt  label gt  x000D       lt td gt  lt label gt  lt input type checkbox disabled checked   gt  lt  label gt  x000D       lt td gt broken - don t use label tag x000D     lt  tr gt  x000D   lt  table gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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If you need the checkbox to be submitted with the form but effectively read-only to the user  I recommend setting them to disabled and using javascript to re-enable them when the form is submitted   This is for two reasons  First and most important  your users benefit from seeing a visible difference between checkboxes they can change and checkboxes which are read-only  Disabled does this   Second reason is that the disabled state is built into the browser so you need less code to execute when the user clicks on something  This is probably more of a personal preference than anything else  You ll still need some javascript to un-disable these when submitting the form   It seems easier to me to use some javascript when the form is submitted to un-disable the checkboxes than to use a hidden input to carry the value

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What none of you are thinking about here is that you are all using JavaScript  which can be very easily bypassed by any user   Simply disabling it disables all JQuery Return False statements   Your only option for readonly checkboxes is server side   Display them  let them change them but don t accept the new post data from them

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lt input name  isActive  id  isActive  type  checkbox  value  1  checked  checked  onclick  return false   gt

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If anyone else is using MVC and an editor template  this is how I control displaying a read only property  I use a custom attribute to get the value in the if statement    if  true         Html HiddenFor m   gt  m        ViewData Model   Html Raw  Yes     Html Raw  No       else                       Html CheckBoxFor m   gt  m

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Model IsEnabled  Use this condition for dynamically check and uncheck and set readonly if check box is already checked    lt input id  quot abc quot  name  quot abc quot   type  quot checkbox quot    Model IsEnabled    quot checked checked onclick this checked  this checked  quot    string Empty   gt

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When submitting the form  we actually pass the value of the checkbox  not the state  checked unchecked   Readonly attribute prevents us to edit the value  but not the state  If you want to have a read-only field that will represent the value you want to submit  use readonly text

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No  input checkboxes can t be readonly   But you can make them readonly with javascript   Add this code anywhere at any time to make checkboxes readonly work as assumed  by preventing the user from modifying it in any way    x000D   x000D  jQuery document  on  click   function e   x000D           check for type  avoid selecting the element for performance x000D        if e target type     checkbox     x000D            var el   jQuery e target   x000D            if el prop  readonly      x000D                   prevent it from changing state x000D                e preventDefault    x000D              x000D          x000D      x000D  input type checkbox  readonly    x000D      cursor  not-allowed  x000D    x000D   lt script src  https   ajax googleapis com ajax libs jquery 2 1 1 jquery min js  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   lt label gt  lt input type  checkbox  checked readonly gt  I m readonly  lt  label gt  x000D   x000D   x000D    You can add this script at any time after jQuery has loaded   It will work for dynamically added elements   It works by picking up the click event  that happens before the change event  on any element on the page  it then checks if this element is a readonly checkbox  and if it is  then it blocks the change   There are so many ifs to make it not affect the performance of the page

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When posting an HTML checkbox to the server  it has a string value of  on  or       Readonly does not stop the user editing the checkbox  and disabled stops the value being posted back  One way around this is to have a hidden element to store the actual value and the displayed checkbox is a dummy which is disabled  This way the checkbox state is persisted between posts    Here is a function to do this  It uses a string of  T  or  F  and you can change this any way you like  This has been used in an ASP page using server side VB script   public function MakeDummyReadonlyCheckbox i strName  i strChecked TorF       dim strThisCheckedValue      if  i strChecked TorF    T   then         strThisCheckedValue     checked           i strChecked TorF    on      else         strThisCheckedValue              i strChecked TorF          end if      MakeDummyReadonlyCheckbox     lt input type  hidden  id     amp  i strName  amp     name     amp  i strName  amp        amp             value     amp  i strChecked TorF  amp     gt    amp          lt input type  checkbox  disabled id     amp  i strName  amp   Dummy  name     amp  i strName  amp   Dummy     amp            strThisCheckedValue  amp    gt      end function  public function GetCheckbox i objCheckbox       select case trim i objCheckbox           case                GetCheckbox    F           case else             GetCheckbox    T       end select  end function   At the top of an ASP page you can pickup the persisted value     strDataValue   GetCheckbox Request Form  chkTest      and when you want to output your checkbox you can do this     response write MakeDummyReadonlyCheckbox  chkTest   strDataValue    I have tested this and it works just fine  It also does not rely upon JavaScript

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lt input name  testName  type  checkbox  disabled gt

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you can use this    lt input type  checkbox  onclick  return false    gt    This works because returning false from the click event stops the chain of execution continuing

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The following works if you know that the checkbox is always checked   lt input type  quot checkbox quot  name  quot Name quot  checked onchange  this checked   true   gt

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Try this to make the checkbox read-only and yet disallow user from checking  This will let you POST the checkbox value  You need to select the default state of the checkbox as Checked in order to do so    lt input type  checkbox  readonly  readonly  onclick  this checked    this checked   gt    If you want the above functionality   dont want to receive the checkbox data  try the below    lt input type  checkbox  readonly  readonly  disabled  disabled  onclick  this checked    this checked   gt    Hope that helps

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Contributing very very late   but anyway  On page load  use jquery to disable all checkboxes except the currently selected one  Then set the currently selected one as read only so it has a similar look as the disabled ones  User cannot change the value  and the selected value still submits

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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

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In old HTML you can use   lt input type  checkbox  disabled checked gt text   but actually is not recommended to use just simply old HTML  now you should use XHTML   In well formed XHTML you have to use   lt input type  checkbox  disabled  disabled  checked  checked    gt text  lt  -- if yu have a checked box-- gt   lt input type  checkbox  disabled  disabled    gt text  lt  -- if you have a unchecked box -- gt    well formed XHTML requires a XML form  thats the reason to use disabled  disabled  instead of simply use disabled

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READONLY doesn t work on checkboxes as it prevents you from editing a field s value  but with a checkbox you re actually editing the field s state  on    off   From faqs org      It s important to understand that READONLY merely prevents the user from changing the value of the field  not from interacting with the field  In checkboxes  for example  you can check them on or off  thus setting the CHECKED state  but you don t change the value of the field    If you don t want to use disabled but still want to submit the value  how about submitting the value as a hidden field and just printing its contents to the user when they don t meet the edit criteria  e g      user allowed change if  user allowed edit        echo   lt input type  checkbox  name  my check  gt  Check value     else          Not allowed change - submit value       echo   lt input type  hidden  name  my check  value  1    gt              and show user the value being submitted     echo   lt input type  checkbox  disabled readonly gt  Check value

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I would use the readonly attribute   lt input type  checkbox  readonly gt    Then use CSS to disable interactions   input type  checkbox   readonly       pointer-events  none      Note that using the pseudo-class  read-only doesn t work here   input type  checkbox   read-only    not working       pointer-events  none

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I just don t want the client to be able to change them under certain circumstances    READONLY itself won t work  You may be able to do something funky w CSS but we usually just make them disabled    WARNING  If they re posted back then the client can change them  period  You can t rely on readonly to prevent a user from changing something  The could always use fiddler or just chane the html w firebug or some such thing

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lt input type  checkbox  onclick  return false     gt  will work for you   I am using this

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This is a checkbox you can t change     lt input type  checkbox  disabled  disabled  checked  checked  gt    Just add disabled  disabled  as an attribute    Edit to address the comments   If you want the data to be posted back  than a simple solutions is to apply the same name to a hidden input    lt input name  myvalue  type  checkbox  disabled  disabled  checked  checked   gt   lt input name  myvalue  type  hidden  value  true   gt    This way  when the checkbox is set to  disabled   it only serves the purpose of a visual representation of the data  instead of actually being  linked  to the data  In the post back  the value of the hidden input is being sent when the checkbox is disabled

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