Forms 101: Disabled form fields are not POSTed

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Was working with a form where I wanted a field to not be edited by users, so I used the disabled attribute on it.

But, it wasn’t sent to the server when the form was submitted.

I eventually used the readonly attribute to make it uneditable, yet be sent in the POST request.

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Creating a form
2: Submitting a form
3: Receiving the form data
4: Form validation
5: More tags useful in forms
6: ▶︎ Disabled form fields are not POSTed