using css to disable a button

[Ovatvvon]

Hello all,

I'm obviously doing something wrong. I thought for sure there was a way to disable a button using css, but could not find the attribute on msdn, and have not been able to figure out a syntax that will work. Does anyone out there know?

This is one example that I've tried so far:

<input type="button" id="item1" name="btnItem1" style="document.getElementById('item1').enabled='false';">

-Ovatvvon :-Q

 

[cLFlaVA]

disable a button using CSS? you cannot perform an action in CSS - it's used for stylistic purposes only.

i suppose you could position an element OVER the button to prevent a user from clicking on the button, or you could just hide the button completely.



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[Vragabond]

<input type="button" id="item1" name="btnItem1" disabled="disabled" />

You were doing something wrong. You were adding style information (how it looks) and putting scripting into it (how it behaves). What you wanted to do, you could accomplish with one of the events, but it is better this way.

 

[Ovatvvon]

Vragabond,
that would require hardcoding it, which is what I was trying to avoid. I actually want this to be dynamic, and so was going to be making additional changes to do so. Do you know how to make it dynamically change to be enabled/disabled?

cLFlaVA (or anyone),
do you know if it is possible via Javascript? I just thought for-sure there was some way to alter that setting dynamically.

-Ovatvvon :-Q

 

[cLFlaVA]

very possible using JavaScript. Check out Forum216.



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[LFI]

What you're writing is JavaScript. Also, although I believe I HAVE seen 'enabled' somewhere, the universally acceptable property is 'disabled' (which you would set to true, of course).

What are you trying to do? Will this button be enabled/disabled on and off based on some other event? If so, that's JavaScript.

...or will it just be disabled all the time? If that's the case, add disabled='disabled' to the INPUT tag. Of course, if that WAS the case, I'm sure you wouldn't be making it a button.

Feel free to head on over to the JavaScript forum (forum216) for all your JavaScript needs!

Dave


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[LFI]

P.S., when I typed my response, no one else had responded yet, but the server was down or something... Anyway, that's why it looks like I hadn't read other people's contributions prior to my post.


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[cLFlaVA]

i love you dave.



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[LFI]

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