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

Enabling a disabled element on click kind of defeats the purpose of disabling, don't you think? If you really want the behavior you're describing, just style it 'disabled' and remove those styles on click.