Re: DOM Events and disabled form controls

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Olli Pettay wrote:
> 
> I wonder which events should be dispatched to disabled form controls?
> 
> WebForms2.0 says the following "The default action of a click on a 
> disabled button is to do nothing." But that is only about default 
> handling, not about event dispatching; should onclick work in this case: 
> <input type="button" onclick="alert(event.type);" value="foobar"/>
> 
> I haven't found anything related to this problem in DOM Events specs, or 
> elsewhere. I think onclick can't be dispatched, that would probably 
> break too many pages, but what about other events and other form 
> controls than just button?

Fixed in HTML5. There's still no spec that defines that events actually 
get fired for user interaction (mouse clicks, etc) though, as far as I can 
tell.

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Received on Wednesday, 22 October 2008 14:05:09 UTC