[jquery] How can I disable a button on a jQuery UI dialog?

How do I go about disabling a button on the jQuery UI dialog. I can't seem to find this in any of the documentation in the link above.

I have 2 buttons on the modal confirmation ("Confirm" and "Cancel"). In certain cases, I want to disable the "Confirm" button.

This worked for me --

$("#dialog-confirm").html('Do you want to permanently delete this?');
$( "#dialog-confirm" ).dialog({
    resizable: false,
    title:'Confirm',
    modal: true,
    buttons: {
        Cancel: function() {
            $( this ).dialog( "close" );
        },
        OK:function(){
            $('#loading').show();
            $.ajax({
                    type:'post',
                    url:'ajax.php',
                    cache:false,
                    data:{action:'do_something'},
                    async:true,
                    success:function(data){
                        var resp = JSON.parse(data);
                        $("#loading").hide();
                        $("#dialog-confirm").html(resp.msg);
                        $( "#dialog-confirm" ).dialog({
                                resizable: false,
                                title:'Confirm',
                                modal: true,
                                buttons: {
                                    Close: function() {
                                        $( this ).dialog( "close" );
                                    }
                                }
                        });
                    }
                });
        }
    }
}); 

The way I do it is Cancel: function(e) { $(e.target).attr( "disabled","disabled" ); }

This is the shortest and easiest way I found.

A button is identified by the class ui-button. To disable a button:

$("#myButton").addClass("ui-state-disabled").attr("disabled", true);

Unless you are dynamically creating the dialog (which is possible), you will know the position of the button. So, to disable the first button:

$("#myButton:eq(0)").addClass("ui-state-disabled").attr("disabled", true);

The ui-state-disabled class is what gives a button that nice dimmed style.

If you're using knockout, then this even cleaner. Imagine you have the following:

var dialog = $('#my-dialog').dialog({_x000D_
    width: '100%',_x000D_
    buttons: [_x000D_
        { text: 'Submit', click: $.noop, 'data-bind': 'enable: items() && items().length > 0, click: onSubmitClicked' },_x000D_
        { text: 'Enable Submit', click: $.noop, 'data-bind': 'click: onEnableSubmitClicked' }_x000D_
    ]_x000D_
});_x000D_
_x000D_
function ViewModel(dialog) {_x000D_
    var self = this;_x000D_
_x000D_
    this.items = ko.observableArray([]);_x000D_
_x000D_
    this.onSubmitClicked = function () {_x000D_
        dialog.dialog('option', 'title', 'On Submit Clicked!');_x000D_
    };_x000D_
_x000D_
    this.onEnableSubmitClicked = function () {_x000D_
        dialog.dialog('option', 'title', 'Submit Button Enabled!');_x000D_
        self.items.push('TEST ITEM');_x000D_
        dialog.text('Submit button is enabled.');_x000D_
    };_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
var vm = new ViewModel(dialog);_x000D_
ko.applyBindings(vm, dialog.parent()[0]); //Don't forget to bind to the dialog parent, or the buttons won't get bound.

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<link rel="stylesheet" href="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" />_x000D_
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.11.2/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/knockout/3.2.0/knockout-min.js"></script>_x000D_
_x000D_
<div id="my-dialog">_x000D_
  Submit button is disabled at initialization._x000D_
</div>

The magic comes from the jQuery UI source:

$( "<button></button>", props )

You can basically call ANY jQuery instance function by passing it through the button object.

For example, if you want to use HTML:

{ html: '<span class="fa fa-user"></span>User' }

Or, if you want to add a class to the button (you can do this multiple ways):

{ addClass: 'my-custom-button-class' }

Maybe you're nuts, and you want to remove the button from the dom when it's hovered:

{ mouseover: function () { $(this).remove(); } }

I'm really surprised that no one seems to have mentioned this in the countless number of threads like this...

this code disable the button with 'YOUR_BUTTON_LABEL'. you can replace name in contains(). to disable

$(".ui-dialog-buttonpane button:contains('YOUR_BUTTON_LABEL')").button("disable");

replace 'YOUR_BUTTON_LABEL' with your button's label. to enable

$(".ui-dialog-buttonpane button:contains('YOUR_BUTTON_LABEL')").button("enable");

Looks like anyone, even in this linked question, have proposed this solution, similar to the first part of the answer given by Nick Craver:

$("#dialog").dialog({
    width: 480,
    height: "auto",
    buttons: [
        {
            id: "button-cancel",
            text: "Cancel",
            click: function() {
                $(this).dialog("close");
            }
        },
        {
            id: "button-ok",
            text: "Ok",
            click: function() {
                $(this).dialog("close");
            }
        }
    ]
});

Then, elsewhere, you should be able to use the API for the jquery UI button:

$("#button-ok").button("disable");

function getDialogButton( jqUIdialog, button_names )
{
    if (typeof button_names == 'string')
        button_names = [button_names];
    var buttons = jqUIdialog.parent().find('.ui-dialog-buttonpane button');
    for (var i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++)
    {
        var jButton = $( buttons[i] );
        for (var j = 0; j < button_names.length; j++)
            if ( jButton.text() == button_names[j] )
                return jButton;
    }

    return null;
}

function enableDialogButton( jqUIdialog, button_names, enable )
{
    var button = getDialogButton( jqUIdialog, button_names );
    if (button == null)
        alert('button not found: '+button_names);
    else
    {
        if (enable)
            button.removeAttr('disabled').removeClass( 'ui-state-disabled' );
        else
            button.attr('disabled', 'disabled').addClass( 'ui-state-disabled' );
    }
}

You can disable a button when you construct the dialog:

$(function() {_x000D_
  $("#dialog").dialog({_x000D_
    modal: true,_x000D_
    buttons: [_x000D_
      { text: "Confirm", click: function() { $(this).dialog("close"); }, disabled: true },_x000D_
      { text: "Cancel", click: function() { $(this).dialog("close"); } }_x000D_
    ]_x000D_
  });_x000D_
});

@import url("https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.min.css");

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>_x000D_
_x000D_
<div id="dialog" title="Confirmation">_x000D_
  <p>Proceed?</p>_x000D_
</div>

Or you can disable it anytime after the dialog is created:

$(function() {_x000D_
  $("#dialog").dialog({_x000D_
    modal: true,_x000D_
    buttons: [_x000D_
      { text: "Confirm", click: function() { $(this).dialog("close"); }, "class": "confirm" },_x000D_
      { text: "Cancel", click: function() { $(this).dialog("close"); } }_x000D_
    ]_x000D_
  });_x000D_
  setTimeout(function() {_x000D_
    $("#dialog").dialog("widget").find("button.confirm").button("disable");_x000D_
  }, 2000);_x000D_
});

@import url("https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.min.css");

<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.3.min.js"></script>_x000D_
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/ui/1.11.4/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>_x000D_
_x000D_
<div id="dialog" title="Confirmation">_x000D_
  <p>Button will disable after two seconds.</p>_x000D_
</div>

I created a jQuery function in order to make this task a bit easier. Probably now there is a better solution... either way, here's my 2cents. :)

Just add this to your JS file:

$.fn.dialogButtons = function(name, state){
var buttons = $(this).next('div').find('button');
if(!name)return buttons;
return buttons.each(function(){
    var text = $(this).text();
    if(text==name && state=='disabled') {$(this).attr('disabled',true).addClass('ui-state-disabled');return this;}
    if(text==name && state=='enabled') {$(this).attr('disabled',false).removeClass('ui-state-disabled');return this;}
    if(text==name){return this;}
    if(name=='disabled'){$(this).attr('disabled',true).addClass('ui-state-disabled');return buttons;}
    if(name=='enabled'){$(this).attr('disabled',false).removeClass('ui-state-disabled');return buttons;}
});};

Disable button 'Ok' on dialog with class 'dialog':

$('.dialog').dialogButtons('Ok', 'disabled');

Enable all buttons:

$('.dialog').dialogButtons('enabled');

Enable 'Close' button and change color:

$('.dialog').dialogButtons('Close', 'enabled').css('color','red');

Text on all buttons red:

$('.dialog').dialogButtons().css('color','red');

Hope this helps :)

You can overwrite the buttons array and left only the ones you need.

$( ".selector" ).dialog( "option", "buttons", [{
    text: "Close",
    click: function() { $(this).dialog("close"); }
}] );

You can also use the not now documented disabled attribute:

$("#element").dialog({
    buttons: [
    {
        text: "Confirm",
        disabled: true,
        id: "my-button-1"
    }, 
    {
        text: "Cancel",
        id: "my-button-2",
        click: function(){            
               $(this).dialog("close");
        }  

    }]
});

To enable after dialog has opened, use:

$("#my-button-1").attr('disabled', false);

JsFiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/xvt96e1p/4/

The following works from within the buttons click function:

$(function() {
    $("#dialog").dialog({
        height: 'auto', width: 700, modal: true,
        buttons: {
            'Add to request list': function(evt) {

                // get DOM element for button
                var buttonDomElement = evt.target;
                // Disable the button
                $(buttonDomElement).attr('disabled', true);

                $('form').submit();
            },
            'Cancel': function() {
                $(this).dialog('close');
            }
        }
    });
}

You could do this to disable the first button for example:

$('.ui-dialog-buttonpane button:first').attr('disabled', 'disabled');