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

In order to enable a disabled element on the client side, lets say in response to a checkbox checked or something, I ended up having to use a combination of JS and jQuery, see below:

//enable the yes & no RB 
function enable()
{
        var RBNo = "rbnBusinessType";
        var RBYes = "rbnBusinessType";

        //jQuery approach to remove disabled from containing spans            
        $("#" + RBYes).parent().removeAttr('disabled');
        $("#" + RBNo).parent().removeAttr('disabled');

        //enable yes and no RBs
        document.getElementById(RBYes).disabled = false;
        document.getElementById(RBNo).disabled = false;               

}

After postback then, you'll need to access the request like the following in order to get at the values of your client side enabled elements:

this._Organization.BusinessTypeHUbZoneSmall = Request.Params["rbnBusinessTypeHUbZoneSmall"] == rbnBusinessTypeHUbZoneSmallYes.ID;

Inspiration taken from: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6995738/asp-javascript-radiobutton-enable-disable-not-included-in-postback-ajax for more information