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Nate
Nate

Reputation: 28424

Validation error: "Attribute readonly not allowed on element input at this point."

When I try to validate the following HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <title>test page</title>
    </head>
    <body>
        <input type="text" name="testInput" value="test value" readonly="readonly" style="background-color: #e3e3e3;">
    </body>
</html>

The validator gives the error:

Line 8, Column 118: Attribute readonly not allowed on element input at this point.

But in the error details it says:

readonly when type is text, ...

As this is a text input, why am I receiving the validation error?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3484

Answers (2)

Peyman Mohamadpour
Peyman Mohamadpour

Reputation: 17964

readonly attribute is only allowed on these input types:

  • text
  • search
  • url
  • tel
  • email
  • password
  • date
  • month
  • week
  • time
  • datetime-local
  • number

For any other input type like hidden, you are not allowed to have readonly in which case you may get:

Error: Attribute readonly not allowed on element input at this point.

Upvotes: 0

Jukka K. Korpela
Jukka K. Korpela

Reputation: 201768

This is bug in the W3C Markup Validator; I have submitted a bug report.

While waiting for the bug to be fixed (which I expect to happen soon), use the validator.nu service instead.

Update: The bug has now been fixed.

Upvotes: 3

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