HTML required readonly input in form

Question

I'm making a form. And on one input tag is an OnClick event handler, which is opening a popup, where you can choose some stuff, and then it autofills the input tag.

That input tag is also readonly, so only right data will be entered.

This is the code of the input tag:

<input type="text" name="formAfterRederict" id="formAfterRederict" size="50" required readonly="readonly" OnClick="choose_le_page();"  />

But the required attribute isn't working in Chrome. But the field is required.

Does anybody know how I can make it work?

Answer 1

I had same requirement as yours and I figured out an easy way to do this. If you want a "readonly" field to be "required" also (which is not supported by basic HTML), and you feel too lazy to add custom validation, then just make the field read only using jQuery this way:

IMPROVED

form the suggestions in comments

<input type="text" class="readonly" autocomplete="off" required />

<script>
    $(".readonly").on('keydown paste focus mousedown', function(e){
        if(e.keyCode != 9) // ignore tab
            e.preventDefault();
    });
</script>

Credits: @Ed Bayiates, @Anton Shchyrov, @appel, @Edhrendal, @Peter Lenjo

ORIGINAL

<input type="text" class="readonly" required />

<script>
    $(".readonly").keydown(function(e){
        e.preventDefault();
    });
</script>

Answer 2

readonly fields cannot have the required attribute, as it's generally assumed that they will already hold some value.

Answer 3

Remove readonly and use function

<input type="text" name="name" id="id" required onkeypress="return false;" />

It works as you want.

Answer 4

This is by design. According to the official HTML5 standard drafts, "if the readonly attribute is specified on an input element, the element is barred from constraint validation." (E.g. its values won't be checked.)

Answer 5

Required and readonly don't work together.

But readonly can be replaced with following construction:

     <input     type="text"
                onkeydown="return false;"
                style="caret-color: transparent !important;"                   
                required>

1) onkeydown will stop manipulation with data

2) style="caret-color: transparent !important;" will hide cursor.

3) you can add style="pointer-events: none;" if you don't have any events on your input, but it was not my case, because I used a Month Picker. My Month picker is showing a dialog on click.

Answer 6

Yes, there is a workaround for this issue. I found it from https://codepen.io/fxm90/pen/zGogwV site.

Solution is as follows.

HTML File

<form>
  <input type="text" value="" required data-readonly />
  <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

CSS File

input[data-readonly] {
  pointer-events: none;
}

Answer 7

If anyone wants to do it only from html, This works for me.

<input type="text" onkeydown="event.preventDefault()" required />

Answer 8

I think this should help.

<form onSubmit="return checkIfInputHasVal()">
    <input type="text" name="formAfterRederict" id="formAfterRederict" size="50" required readonly="readonly" OnClick="choose_le_page();"  />
</form>

<script>
     function checkIfInputHasVal(){
        if($("#formAfterRederict").val==""){
             alert("formAfterRederict should have a value");
             return false;
        }
     }
</script>

Answer 9

You can do this for your template:

<input required onfocus="unselect($event)" class="disabled">

And this for your js:

unselect(event){
    event.preventDefault();
    event.currentTarget.blur();
}

For a user the input will be disabled and required at the same time, providing you have a css-class for disabled input.

Answer 10

Based on answer @KanakSinghal but without blocked all keys and with blocked cut event

$('.readonly').keydown(function(e) {
  if (e.keyCode === 8 || e.keyCode === 46)  // Backspace & del
    e.preventDefault();
}).on('keypress paste cut', function(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
});

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="text" class="readonly" value="test" />

P.S. Somebody knows as cut event translate to copy event?

Answer 11

Required and readonly don't work together.

Although you can make two inputs like this:

<input id="One" readonly />
<input id="Two" required style="display: none" /> //invisible

And change the value Two to the value that´s inside the input One.

Answer 12

I have the same problem, and finally I use this solution (with jQuery):

form.find(':input[required][readonly]').filter(function(){ return this.value === '';})

In addition to the form.checkValidity(), I test the length of the above search somehow this way:

let fcnt = $(form)
    .find(':input[required][readonly]')
    .filter(function() { return this.value === '';})
    .length;

if (form.checkValidity() && !fcnt) {
   form.submit();
}

Answer 13

  function validateForm() {
    var x = document.forms["myForm"]["test2"].value;
    if (x == "") {
      alert("Name missing!!");
      return false;
    }
  }

  <form class="form-horizontal" onsubmit="return validateForm()" name="myForm" action="" method="POST">
   <input type="text"  name="test1">
    <input type="text" disabled name="test2">
    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>