Read-only or disabled the jquery tags

try this:

$('#tags').tagsInput({
        'interactive':false
        });

if you want to disable the remove 'X'. use this below.

$('.tagsinput').find('a').remove();

This should work:

$('.tagsinput input').attr('disabled', 'disabled');

To make it editable, you can do:

$('.tagsinput input').removeAttr('disabled');