Make form elements disabled or readonly by wrapping them with something? - css

Question

Is it possible in an HTML form to mark several input elements as readonly or disabled by wrapping them with something?
I know you can set the form itself as disabled for example, but that of course disabled the whole form. I'm thinking something like:
<form>
<input name="not-readonly">
<div readonly="readonly">
<input name="readonly-field-1">
<input name="readonly-field-2">
</div>
<input type="submit">
</form>
Or could this be solved with CSS somehow? Or maybe only with Javascript?

Answer 1

Just found out that you can disable a group of form elements using the fieldset tag. However, it seems to be slightly buggy in certain versions of IE. There also is no support for the readonly attribute, which unfortunately was the one I needed in this case... maybe it'll be added later?
<form>
<input name="not-disabled">
<fieldset disabled>
<input name="disabled-field-1">
<input name="disabled-field-2">
</fieldset>
<input type="submit">
</form>

Answer 2

I'm assuming you know how to disable inputs in the regular way based on the fact that you have 34k rep.
<input disabled="disabled" type="text" name="something"/>
Easily done with jquery of course (example based on your markup)
$('div[readonly="readonly"]').find('input').attr('disabled','disabled');
You can't actually disable an input with css, but you can fake a disabled input with css like:
.fakeinput {
padding: 4px;
font-family: monospace;
font-size: .8em;
color: #aaa;
border: #999 1px solid;
background: fff;
border-radius: 1px;
margin: 5px 0;
box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 2px #ddd;
}
<p class="fakeinput">Pretend Value</p>

Answer 3

javascript
document.getElementById("myText").disabled = true;
CSS
<INPUT NAME="realname" VALUE="Hi There" readonly>
<INPUT NAME="realname" VALUE="Hi There" disabled>