[Javascript] How to dim buttons

[Mike Dougherty]

Why would it matter which quote style is used?

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From: javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu
[mailto:javascript-bounces at LaTech.edu] On Behalf Of Håkan Magnusson
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 12:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [Javascript] How to dim buttons


I rather use double quotes when I want to automatically escape my 
string, and single quotes when I don't need any escaping, since the 
single quotes parse about a billion times faster than double quotes.

David Lovering wrote:

> As far as I know, any dynamic object (something which accepts a
> change-of-state) can be disabled in this fashion, at least according
to my
> interpretation of the W3C standard.  I would generally suggest using a
> white-space delimeter on both sides of the equal sign, and for
anything
> which is not a numeric contstant using double-quotes around the
left-side
> quantity.  For example:
> 
>   document.forms[0].mybutton.disabled = "true";
> 
> This will work better on a larger number of browsers of varying
vintages.
> 
> IE in its later versions allows even "static" objects (like labels,
TR, TD,
> etc.) to be disabled in this fashion, but the results are often rather
> surprising.  Instead, I would recommend changing the CSS attribute
> ".visible" to "hidden" for a static object, as it is more intuitive
and
> portable.
> 
> -- Dave Lovering
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Robert Pollard" <rpollard at apple.com>
> To: <Javascript at LaTech.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:37 AM
> Subject: [Javascript] How to dim buttons
> 
> 
> 
>>Hello all,
>>
>>I saw a page that had JavaScript that dimmed a button with the syntax
>>document.button.disabled=true.  Is this something that is available to
>>all browsers or is it limited to specific ones?
>>
>>I've never seen this in any documentation.  Can this be done to other
>>objects as well?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Robert Pollard
>>
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