I have some controls that I need to disable when users don\'t have edit priveleges, but are sometimes not wide enough to show the entire text of the selected option element.
I know this is an old post, but hopefully this answer will clarify how @Diodeus answer can be implemented!
Disabled elements do not fire events, e.g. users cannot hover or click them to trigger a popover (or tooltip). As a workaround, you can however wrap a NOTE! Using I've put together a JS fiddle with some examples here: http://jsfiddle.net/Dr4co/tg6134ju/ around the disabled element and listen to the event fired on that element instead.
onmouseover and onmouseout in the wrapper onmouseenter and onmouseleave instead, which is working great both in IE and in Chrome.