readonly

[Jeff Thies]

I'd like to set a checkbox to be readonly (this will be done server side
with CGI.pm).

I thought I could do this:

<input readonly="readonly" ...>

but this is also readonly:

<input readonly="" ...>

Is there a way to set readonly with an attribute pair, Or does the presence
of the string readonly make the only difference?

Jeff

 

[Toby A Inkster]

Is there a way to set readonly with an attribute pair, Or does the presence
of the string readonly make the only difference?

These two should work:

<input readonly="readonly" ...>
<input readonly ...>

in HTML, but only the former in XHTML. It's a SHORTTAGS feature.