[javascript] Disabling and enabling a html input button

So I have a button like this:

<input id="Button" type="button" value="+" style="background-color:grey" onclick="Me();"/>

How can I disable and enable it when I want? I have tried disabled="disable" but enabling it back is a problem. I tried setting it back to false but that didn't enable it.

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This will surely work .

To Disable a button

$('#btn_id').button('disable');

To Enable a button

$('#btn_id').button('enable');

You can do this fairly easily with just straight JavaScript, no libraries required.

Enable a button

document.getElementById("Button").disabled=false;

Disable a button

 document.getElementById("Button").disabled=true;

No external libraries necessary.


Disabling/enabling an html input button with JavaScript:

(And React with refs. Replace "elementRef.current" with element selection if not using React)

 elementRef.current.setAttribute('disabled', 'disabled');

Enable:

 elementRef.current.removeAttribute('disabled');

Since you are disabling it in the first place, the way to enable it is to set its disabled property as false.

To change its disabled property in Javascript, you use this:

var btn = document.getElementById("Button");
btn.disabled = false;

And obviously to disable it again, you'd use true instead.

Since you also tagged the question with jQuery, you could use the .prop method. Something like:

var btn = $("#Button");
btn.prop("disabled", true);   // Or `false`

This is in the newer versions of jQuery. The older way to do this is to add or remove an attribute like so:

var btn = $("#Button");
btn.attr("disabled", "disabled");
// or
btn.removeAttr("disabled");

The mere presence of the disabled property disables the element, so you cannot set its value as "false". Even the following should disable the element

<input type="button" value="Submit" disabled="" />

You need to either remove the attribute completely or set its property.


$(".btncancel").button({ disabled: true });

Here 'btncancel' is the class name of the button.


 <!--Button Disable Script-->
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function DisableButton() {
            document.getElementById("<%=btnSave.ClientID %>").disabled = true;
        }
        window.onbeforeunload = DisableButton;
    </script>
    <!--Button Disable Script-->

While not directly related to the question, if you hop onto this question looking to disable something other than the typical input elements button, input, textarea, the syntax won't work.

To disable a div or a span, use setAttribute

document.querySelector('#somedivorspan').setAttribute('disabled', true);

P.S: Gotcha, only call this if you intend to disable. A bug in chrome Version 83 causes this to always disable even when the second parameter is false.


Without jQuery disable input will be simpler

Button.disabled=1;

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function dis() {_x000D_
  Button.disabled= !Button.disabled;_x000D_
}
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<input id="Button" type="button" value="+" style="background-color:grey" onclick="Me();"/>_x000D_
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<button onclick="dis()">Toggle disable</button>
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the disable attribute only has one parameter. if you want to reenable it you have to remove the whole thing, not just change the value.


Stick to php...

Why not only allow the button to appear once an above criteria is met.

<?
if (whatever == something) {
    $display = '<input id="Button" type="button" value="+" style="background-color:grey" onclick="Me();"/>';
    return $display;
}
?>