How to prevent a combo box from droppping down in HTML?

Question

The user sees a web form with a bunch of controls. One of them is a combo box (drop down list) with several options.

He selects one and hits the submit button. My PHP form action validates the input & shows the submission as a read-only version of the input form for confirmation.

I would like to prevent the combobox from dropping down, using only HTML generated by PHP.

Can I?

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Edit: I need to display it as it was in the original form (WYSIWYG), so can't just use plain text

Answer 1

I think this is what you're looking for:

select#some-id { color: black; }

<select id='some-id' disabled='disabled'><option value='some-value'>Text to Show</option></select>

The CSS is to prevent the "grayed out" behaviour of a disabled form element. The little tick next to the text field will still be grayed out, which intuitively suggests that drop-down is not available.