allow_none=True for typical widgets?

Widgets
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widgets always coerce the value to a default. this sometimes leads to unwanted behaviour in user input forms when the user selects nothing but the widget always returns a default value.

i.e.

import ipywidgets as widgets
widgets.IntText(value=None).value
# 0

in traitlets you can allow_none for a given value… is there a way to do this for widgets (e.g. widgets.IntText)

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ipywidgets is based on traitlets, did you try disabled?
disabled = Bool(False, help="Enable or disable user changes").tag(sync=True)
But maybe you can create a subclass from IntText and then you can set allow_none=True