If I set DateField disabled ,I can't get value

[lyo]

Hi friends:

I want to set the DateField to "disable:true"(Because I don't want the user select Datepicker,readOnly can't help). But I find that If I set the DateField to disabled,I can't get the DateField's value in the server side. I means that:

My js code:

 new Ext.form.DateField({
                fieldLabel: 'datetimetoday',
                name: 'outtime',
    disabled:true,
    altFormats: 'Y-m-d H:i:s',
    value:(new Date()),
            }),

In the server side (Java),I can't get the value "outtime"

String outtime =request.getParameter("outtime");
System.out.println("get outtime data:"+outtime);
//print: null

In the server side,it print "null".
If I set the disabled to true,I can get the "outtime" value. Why ? How to get the disabled DateField's value? Thks!

[Animal]

Disabled fields are not submitted, that is standard HTML form behaviour.

Do you really want a readOnly field?

[lyo]

Yes,I don't want to user select a datepicker. I find that user remain could change the field's value although I set it to readOnly. Common textfield is hard to set a date format text into it. How to use a readonly datefield?