Is it possible to make input fields read-only through CSS?

With CSS only? This is sort of possible on text inputs by using user-select:none:

.print {
  -webkit-user-select: none;
  -moz-user-select: none;
  -ms-user-select: none;
  user-select: none;          
}

JSFiddle example.

It's well worth noting that this will not work in browsers which do not support CSS3 or support the user-select property. The readonly property should be ideally given to the input markup you wish to be made readonly, but this does work as a hacky CSS alternative.

With JavaScript:

document.getElementById("myReadonlyInput").setAttribute("readonly", "true");

Edit: The CSS method no longer works in Chrome (29). The -webkit-user-select property now appears to be ignored on input elements.


The read-only attribute in HTML is used to create a text input non-editable. But in case of CSS, the pointer-events property is used to stop the pointer events.

Syntax:

pointer-events: none;

Example: This example shows two input text, in which one is non-editable.

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
    <head> 
        <title> 
            Disable Text Input field 
        </title> 

        <style> 
        .inputClass { 
            pointer-events: none; 
        } 
        </style> 
    </head> 

    <body style = "text-align:center;">
        Non-editable:<input class="inputClass" name="input" value="NonEditable"> 

        <br><br> 

        Editable:<input name="input" value="Editable"> 
    </body> 
</html>

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