Remove disabled attribute onClick of disabled form field

Question

I have a form field that starts out disabled and has an onClick to enable it. The onClick doesn\'t fire (at least in FF) nor does a simple alert(1);.

The hacky vers

Answer 1

Use readonly instead of disabled

For checkboxes at least, this makes them look disabled but behave normally (tested on Google Chrome). You'll have to catch the click and prevent the default action of the event as appropriate.