290941 - XUL <checkbox> does not support readonly

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: XUL, enhancement)

Description

[Thomas Borg Salling]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050412 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050412 Firefox/1.0+

Unlike other XULElements (e.g. <textbox>) the <checkbox> does not support the
readonly attribute.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Neil Deakin]

It doesn't because you can't type into it. Are you thinking of "disabled", which
is supported?

Comment 2

[Thomas Borg Salling]

No - that would grey out the label. I am looking for a non-grayed readonly
checkbox ; just as a a readonly textbox.

Comment 3

[Neil Deakin]

I don't understand why. A readonly only checkbox would serve no purpose
whatsoever if it couldn't be changed. Could you give an example of what you
would like to do?

Comment 4

[Thomas Borg Salling]

I am displaying data from a database, that all users are allowed to see, but
only certain users allowed to edit. So I would use readonly for the unprivileged
users, and "not-readonly" for the privileged users.

I am using the checkboxes to display booleans from the database.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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