Disable HTML input without disabling mouse events

Question

Is it possible to disable an HTML input while keeping mouse events?

I know that disabled="disabled" also stops events from being evaluated. What I need to do is disable clicking on the input element, but still recognize the onmouseover and onmouseout events (for switching background images).

Note that I am not searching for a workaround like making it look disabled with CSS or something like that. I want to actually make it impossible to be clicked (like clicking on an image), but I can NOT just use an image instead.

Answer 1

Readonly?

 <input readonly="readonly" type="text">

You can preserve mouse events, but will be impossible to fill with keyboard.