“disabled” property not working for date/time edit boxes displaying a date/time picker

Question

An editbox with its display type set to "Date/Time" and with the "Display date/time picker pop up" option checked obviously ignores an checked "Disabled" property (is this a bug?); without the picker pop up option the control can be disabled as any other editbox.

If however I check the control's "readonly" property along with its "Show disbled control for read only" property then the control appears to be rendered as "disabled"; the html source for the INPUT however shows these attributes

readonly="" aria-readonly="true"

Question: are there any possible side effects using that workaround? So far I don't have any experience with aria attributes and the like.

Answer 1

This is indeed an existing issue, the disabled property doesn't work on the Date Time Picker. This should be fixed in 854 (usual provisos apply).

Answer 2

Setting all three attributes disabled, readonly, & showReadonlyAsDisabled, then the DateTime field shows up but is not functional.

[xp:inputText id="inputText2" **disabled="true"** **readonly="true"**
    **showReadonlyAsDisabled="true"**]
    [xp:dateTimeHelper id="dateTimeHelper1"][/xp:dateTimeHelper]
    [xp:this.converter]
        [xp:convertDateTime type="date"][/xp:convertDateTime]
    [/xp:this.converter]
[/xp:inputText]