[Javascript] disabled menus

[Hakan M (Backbase)]

I suppose it doesn't work in IE. For a slightly non-kosher solution, you 
could try

element['disabled'] = 'disabled';

Don't make a habit out of it. ;)

Regards,
H

Chuck Soper wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> I added the following line to the popuplateBreadSelect function:
>   element.setAttribute("disabled", "disabled");
> but, it doesn't work.
> 
> I read the w3.org link and noticed the disabled attribute for the Option 
> Element states: unavailable in this context.
> 
> Do you know how or if I can modify my code to get this to work? I can 
> disable the entire dropdown, but not individual elements.
> source: http://www.velofish.com/menu/menuTest.js
> 
> Chuck
> 
> At 10:35 PM -0800 2/28/05, Paul Novitski wrote:
> 
>> At 07:19 PM 2/28/2005, Chuck Soper wrote:
>>
>>> I'm trying to display disabled menu items.
>>
>>
>>
>> Chuck,
>>
>> To disable a select option, just add the "disabled" attribute to the tag:
>>
>> HTML:  <option disabled>Banana</option>
>> XHTML: <option disabled="disabled">Banana</option>
>>
>> The disabled option is greyed out and can't be selected.
>>
>> You can set this attribute with Javascript using code like this:
>>
>>         oOption.setAttribute("disabled", "disabled");
>>
>> where oOption is the OPTION object.
>>
>> The disabled option is listed as an attribute of OPTION in the W3C 
>> HTML specification:
>>
>>         The SELECT, OPTGROUP, and OPTION elements
>>         http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.6
>>
>> (scroll down to the OPTION section)
>>
>> Paul
> 
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