disabled="false" doesn't enable...

[ankur rathi]

Why disabled="false" doesn't enable radio button? (given that 'disabled' is one of the property of radio button and can have two values 'true' and 'false').

(disabled(false) and disabled:false enable)


Thanks.

[ankur rathi]

disabled = false eable radio button. :roll:

[Kj Reddy]

Originally posted by rathi ji:
Why disabled="false" doesn't enable radio button? (given that 'disabled' is one of the property of radio button and can have two values 'true' and 'false').

(disabled(false) and disabled:false enable)


Thanks.

I try with the following:
document.searchform.radio1[0].disabled = false;

Its working fine for me.

[ankur rathi]

Originally posted by KJ Reddy:


I try with the following:
document.searchform.radio1[0].disabled = false;

Its working fine for me.

Yes, the above will work. But if we double quote the false (I mean, "false") then it doesn't work.

:roll:
[ June 26, 2006: Message edited by: rathi ji ]

[Bear Bibeault]

Originally posted by rathi ji:

But if we double quote the false (I mean, "false") then it doesn't work.

Then don't double-quote it.

[Jon Hanlon]

In HTML boolean attributes such as disabled and readonly can only legally take the name of the attribute.
eg. disabled="disabled" readonly="readonly"
Most browsers however accept any value for the attribute as being in the affimative.
So the following are equivalent:
disabled="disabled"
disabled
disabled="true"
disabled="false"
disabled="unknown"
disabled="23"
disabled="no"

If you want to remove a disabled attribute in script, use the removeAttribute() method.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/intro/sgmltut.html#didx-boolean_attribute-1

[Bear Bibeault]

Originally posted by Jon Hanlon:
In HTML boolean attributes such as disabled and readonly can only legally take the name of the attribute.

I beleive that the OP was talking about Javascript properties (which will expect Javascript boolean values) rather than assigning HTML attributes, but this is a good point for those that will be assigning these values in HTML.

[Jon Hanlon]

Well, if you script

disabled = "false";

then the non-empty string is cast as boolean true, so it becomes

disabled = true;

[Bear Bibeault]

Yes, as I said. In script, a boolean value is expected. What's your point?

[ankur rathi]

Originally posted by Jon Hanlon:
Well, if you script

disabled = "false";

then the non-empty string is cast as boolean true, so it becomes

disabled = true;

That's a good point.