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

Citing Quirksmode.org:

"A click event on a disabled form field does not fire events in Firefox and Safari. Opera fires the mousedown and mouseup events, but not the click event. IE fires mousedown and mouseup, but not click, on the form. All these implementations are considered correct."

Quirksmode's compatibility table is great to find out more about such problems.