[Javascript] How to dim buttons

[David T. Lovering]

I too hadn't heard about the difference in parsing time -- I thought the selection of single or double-quotes was more a matter of convention (and whether you'd started the string with the other).

-- Dave Lovering

Mike Dougherty wrote:
> 
> Why would it matter which quote style is used?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
> To: [JavaScript List]
> 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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