Hello,

This is a proposal for a new feature to have readonly fields (and submit their values).
Currently "readonly" attribute supports only text related fields. It would be very nice to extend this readonly concept to other fields as well like select boxes, checkboxes, etc.

WHATWG agrees to standardize a new attribute called "submitanyway" to achieve this functionality, in combination with "disabled" attribute.

So basically for input type=text and textarea elements we can use the already existing "readonly" attribute, and for the rest fields (ie radio, checkbox, select, multi select) we can use "disabled" plus "submitanyway".

See https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/2311 for more info.

There are plenty of users requesting this kind of functionality. Obviously there are workarounds but they all involve a lot of unnecessary boilerplate that would be really great to get rid of.

Thank you for your time.