Setting attribute disabled on a SPAN element does

Question

I have a <span> element which does something on a click event.

When I disable it, using jQuery:

$("span").attr("disabled", true);

The event handler continues to be called when I click on the span element.

I am testing in Chrome 13. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

Try unbinding the event.

$("span").click(function(){
alert($(this).text());
    $("span").not($(this)).unbind('click');
});

Here is the fiddle

Answer 2

The disabled attribute is not global and is only allowed on form controls. What you could do is set a custom data attribute (perhaps data-disabled) and check for that attribute when you handle the click event.

Answer 3

The best method is to wrap the span inside a button and disable the button

$("#buttonD").click(function(){
  alert("button clicked");
})

$("#buttonS").click(function(){
  alert("span clicked");
})

<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script><script src="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" />


<button class="btn btn-success" disabled="disabled" id="buttonD">
    <span>Disabled button</span>
</button>

<br>
<br>

 <span class="btn btn-danger" disabled="disabled" id="buttonS">Disabled span</span>

Answer 4

The disabled attribute's standard behavior only happens for form elements. Try unbinding the event:

$("span").unbind("click");

Answer 5

There is a dirty trick, what I have used:

I am using bootstrap, so I just added .disabled class to the element which I want to disable. Bootstrap handles the rest of the things.

Suggestion are heartily welcome towards this.

Adding class on run time:

$('#element').addClass('disabled');

Answer 6

Try this:

$("span").css("pointer-events", "none");

you can enabled those back by

$("span").css("pointer-events", "auto");