title: Disable drop down list by Jquery but maintain the value in server side
body: <p>Good day all,</p>
  
  <p>I tried to disable a drop down list by jQuery, and I would like to maintain the value in the drop down list in server side/ back-end although it has been disable.</p>
  
  <p>This is my jQuery code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>if('${actionBean.list1.size()}' &gt; 0)
      $('#dropdownA').prop("disabled", true);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, after I disable the drop down, the value become null in my java file :</p>
  
  <pre><code>System.out.println("dropdown value is " + getdropdownA());
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any idea to maintain the value although I disable the drop down list after user selected on it?</p>