How to avoid sending input fields which are hidden by display:none to a server?

Question

Imagine you have a form where you switch visibility of several fields. And if the field is not displayed you don\'t want its value to be in request.

How do you handl

Answer 1

If you wanna disable all elements or certain elements within a hidden parent element, you can use

$("div").filter(":hidden").children("input[type='text']").attr("disabled", "disabled");

This example http://jsfiddle.net/gKsTS/ disables all textboxes within a hidden div