[Javascript] disabled menus

[Chuck Soper]

Thanks. I tried that and it didn't work either. I will take a totally 
different approach. That is, I'll accept that it's not possible to 
"disable individual options in a select element" as Peter Brunone 
suggested.
Thanks for everyone's help.
Chuck

At 10:55 AM +0100 3/1/05, Hakan M (Backbase) wrote:
>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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