Last Updated: 2024-04-24

I added a disabled HTML field for the seller country. I could see the chosen country in a disabled select box in the frontend. It looked legit...

However, I found the data was never submitted to the backend on form submission, leading to data consistency issues.

What I learned was that any input with the disabled attribute will not be submitted with the form!

Ideas to get around the limitation in my code-base:

• restrict choices without a visible field - i.e. replace the disabled field with a hidden field and a paragraph explaining to the user that the website assumes they are from the UK (i.e. the pre-selected country) no matter what.