Form fields with "disabled" get sent to the server

[gergelypolonkai]

Most (all?) browsers exclude disabled form fields (e.g. <input type="text" name="whatever" disabled>) from the form data they send during form submission. However, webtest doesn’t do this, which made several tests of mine fail. Is there a way to mimic this behaviour?

[gawel]

I don't think so. But you can provide a patch. Something like .submit(disabled=False) would be great

[nealtodd]

Four years late to this particular party, but also bitten by this in some tests that were dependent on disabled fields not getting sent on submit.

I don't have time to provide a patch, sorry, but for anyone else coming across this issue here's a quick and dirty fix to use in a test to prune out disabled fields before submitting:

form = my_response_object.forms['my-form']

for name_field_tuple in form.field_order[:]:
    if 'disabled' in name_field_tuple[1].attrs:
        form.field_order.remove(name_field_tuple)

form.submit()

Worked for me as I didn't need to do anything else with the form object after submitting.

[merwok]

Something like .submit(disabled=False) would be great

With what behaviour?