jQuery detect click on disabled submit button

Question

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ugzux/

As you can see, I have a form with a disabled (via javascript) submit button.

I want to be able to bind a click event to

Answer 1

The best way I've found to do this is to use a "disabled" class to disable the button. You can then catch click events normally in jquery. If $(this).hasClass('disabled'), you do your 'jazzy indication' stuff, along with event.preventDefault(); Once the user has done their thing, you can removeClass('disabled') from the input[type="submit"] 'button'. Easy!