Event on a disabled input

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Disabled elements don’t fire mouse events. Most browsers will propagate an event originating from the disabled element up the DOM tree, so event handlers could be placed on container elements. However, Firefox doesn’t exhibit this behaviour, it just does nothing at all when you click on a disabled element.

I can’t think of a better solution but, for complete cross browser compatibility, you could place an element in front of the disabled input and catch the click on that element. Here’s an example of what I mean:

<div style="display:inline-block; position:relative;">
  <input type="text" disabled />
  <div style="position:absolute; left:0; right:0; top:0; bottom:0;"></div>
</div>​

jq:

$("div > div").click(function (evt) {
    $(this).hide().prev("input[disabled]").prop("disabled", false).focus();
});​

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/RXqAm/170/ (updated to use jQuery 1.7 with prop instead of attr).

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