Disabling Form Fields

[tyrant1969]

I have a form that has a variety of fields and input options. I am attempting to disable certain checkboxes when an option is chosen from the drop down menu.

The core of the problem is that if the checkbox is initially formatted like this:

<input type="checkbox" name="existing" value="existing1" id="ex1">

Such that it is an enabled field from the get-go, the javascript command of:

opener.document.getElementById('ex1').disabled = true;

Does not work!

But if I turn around, setup that exact same checkbox like this so that it is disabled:

<input [b]disabled[/b] type="checkbox" name="existing" value="existing1" id="ex1">

Then enable it first thing and later on disable it using javascript after the appropriate selection has been made, then all works just fine.

Why won't the box disable simply using the .disabled=true option?

Any suggestions welcomed!

 

[tyrant1969]

Nevermind...it is definitely one of those days where I should drink coffee before posting code questions!

The code I cut-n-pasted was from my test server and it was coded correctly, but the code that I was actually attempting to run was from my live server. Where the javascript was attempting to access an id that existed, but wasn't an input field. So no errors were thrown back, but disabling a div really doesn't do one heck of a lot of good.

Sorry for wasting you time!