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The disabled property sets or returns whether a checkbox should be disabled, or not. A disabled element is unusable and un-clickable. Disabled elements are usually rendered in gray by default in browsers. This property reflects the HTML disabled attribute.

Checkboxes actually has three states: true, false and indeterminate which indicates that a checkbox is neither "on" or "off". A checkbox cannot be set to indeterminate state by an HTML attribute - it must be set by a JavaScript. This state can be used to force the user to check or uncheck the checkbox.

To disable a checkbox, use the disabled attribute in the <input> tag.

Protect the cell or the sheet after the checkbox has been checked. This could be done manually i.e. right click the cell then select protect to open the sidebar to set the protection settings, or automatically by using Google Apps Script.

We can make use of the useState hook to store the state of the checkbox. Now if you try to check the checkbox, nothing would happen and you will see the following warning in the console: You provided a checked prop to a form field without an onChange handler. This will render a read-only field.

In JavaScript, we can access the checkbox element using id, class, or tag name and apply '. checked' to the element, which returns either true or false based on the checkbox is checked.

How to Enable or Disable Checkbox in HTML? Use of ?disabled? Attribute. Use of ?pointer-events? CSS Property. Using Custom JavaScript Function. Use of jQuery ?attr()? Method.

You can put a transparent div on top of the checkbox to make it un-clickable by toggling a class on the parent object. Something like this... This still sets the css styles for the checkboxes so it looks like it was clicked.

To disable a checkbox, use the disabled attribute in the <input> tag.

The state can be changed by providing the new state value or an updater function. The updater function takes the current state and returns the new state. The state related to a checkbox input is a boolean. When the state is false the checkbox is unchecked, when the state is true the checkbox is checked.