What is the correct value for the disabled attribute?

Asked 2011-08-05T19:19:39.510

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What is the correct value for the disabled attribute for a textbox or textarea?

I've seen the following used before:

<input type="text" disabled />
<input type="text" disabled="disabled" />
<input type="text" disabled="true" />

html textbox textarea

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For XHTML, <input type="text" disabled="disabled" /> is the valid markup.
For HTML5, <input type="text" disabled /> is valid and used by W3C on their samples.
In fact, both ways works on all major browsers.

answered 2011-08-05T19:48:18.447