Joomla editor field type text not posted when submitted

Question

I'm working on a custom joomla module. It has a form with an "editor" type field. The fields are defined in the related xml file:

<form>
    <fields name="main">
        <fieldset name="basic">
            ...
            <field
                name="Message"
                type="editor"
                label="Message"
                filter="safehtml"
                readonly="true"
            />
        </fieldset>
    </fields>
</form> 

When I press the button to submit the form all other form fields are properly submitted, but not the editor field.

I checked that if I change the field type to "textarea", the text gets posted correctly. So it must be something with the editor field type.

What do I need to do to be able to submit the text entered into the editor field?

Thanks a lot, W.

Answer 1

Are you sure that you want to set the editor field type to readonly='true' ? Maybe it's just a mistake. I do not see the logic behind that. That way you could not really edit and submit anything via the editor.

In Joomla documentation there is no possible attribute of readonly to editor field type. Link to doc: https://docs.joomla.org/Editor_form_field_type