Please just make it already. as i understand it readonly is already a thing on form in html. 

and yes i know we can make a template. but if we have to do that every time whats the point of FormItem itself?

and as Rama said. enabled is on all. but its not nice to look ad since it disabels all and can be hard to read.

this is a very usefull feature, it would be great to be able to create a form that can be shown as a "details page" and re-use the same page / component by just setting it to edit mode...

and for that matter add record.... keep one form to serve all 3 can help reduce coding and keep a standard UI.

I know this is kind of old, but I've come across a situation where having a "ReadOnly" attribute would be nice.

The problem with using a "Template" is that once you go down that path you lose a lot of the other parts which make the FormItem easy to use. For example, you have to now create your own Label, Hint, and Validation controls to match those of the other FormItems.

It's not super hard, but you go from this:

<FormItem LabelText="Mobile Phone"
                     Field="@(nameof(UserProfileDto.MobileNumber))"
                     Hint="You will received texts at this number." />

To this:

<FormItem LabelText="Email Address"
          Field="@(nameof(UserProfileDto.Email))"
          Hint="This value cannot be changed.">
    <Template>
        <label class="k-form-label">Email Address</label>
        <TelerikTextBox @bind-Value="UserProfile.Email"
                        ReadOnly="true" />
        <div class="k-form-hint">This value cannot be changed.</div>
    </Template>
</FormItem>

 

 

 

 

Hi Dimo,

Yes, if we enabled="false", the appearance is getting changed. everthing is grayed out including lables and textboxes and text inside the textboxes. 

If we set readonly, the appearance will look same except user cannot enter any data.

I have the same issue, but no idea how to implement this.

Hi Dimo,

The problem is by just setting Enabled="false" users are not able to select the input box to continue copying data out of the field. ReadOnly was made available on all input boxes so we can continue to select and copy data from the field. It is possible to set up a template for each form item but that is a lot of extra work to do to make sure all fields are ReadOnly.

It is actually extremely rare I would ever want to have a disabled input that users cannot select and copy.