I was disabling a drop down form <select> field by doing this:
<option value="NY" disabled> NY </option>
It works just fine in firefox.
I just discovered that it does not work in the new IE 7, I believe it worked in IE 6.
Anyways, it is important that I resolve this asap. I am using this much needed feature in several of my forms. They are all wrong now!
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How many options do you have?
You can use radio buttons instead if not many.
If you really need it, what to do if selected?
This?
<form>
<select
onChange="if (this.options[this.selecte
alert('Please select something else'); this.selectedIndex=0;
}">
<option>Please select
<option style="color:gray" disabled="disabled">Disabl
<option>Not Disabled
<option style="color:gray" disabled="disabled">Disabl
</select>
</form>
Now I am confused
The generic code
<select name="state">
<option value="NY" disabled> NY </option>
</select>
With your modification:
<select name="state">
<option value="NY" style="color:gray" disabled="disabled"> NY </option>
</select>
where is the onchange going and why onchange...it needs to be disabled from load.
Did you try my suggestion?
The onChange goes on the select tag:
<select
onChange="if (this.options[this.selecte
alert('Please select something else'); this.selectedIndex=0;
}">
In FF the disabled works just from the attribute so you cannot even mouse over the disabled options
In IE the style will show you it is disabled PLUS the attribute PLUS the onchange will stop you from selecting the field when you try to. It does not disallow you from mousing over it, but if you select a disabled option, you get the alert and the dropdown goes back to "Please Select"
it is the best you can get.
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by: mplungjanPosted on 2007-09-14 at 06:18:52ID: 19891133
Never seen that functionality...