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We're back again with another round of "Bug or Feature?" highlighting a particular behavior in one or more browsers, that, well, could be a Bug, or it could be a Feature... we'll open up the comments for your vote and opinion.
Alright, what's today's "Bug or Feature"?
Synopsis:
Everyone knows that form elements [button|input|select|textarea] can be disabled to stop users interacting with them and to ensure they are not "successful controls" when a form is submitted.
So... what happens if you disable non form elements?
In most browsers... Just like you'd expect... absolutely nothing because it isn't supported.
However in IE there is a different behavior.
In IE when you set the disabled flag on an element it "kinda-sorta" disables all the child elements.
Example:
<div disabled="disabled"> Email: <input type="text" name="foo" value="bar"/><br/> Send me spam: <input type="checkbox" name="baz" value="yes" checked="checked"/><br/> </div>
So is it expected that the child elements render disabled? What if you wanted one or more of the children enabled?
Known Workarounds: None.
Related Issues: None.
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1 comment:
I'd argue a 'feature' when used on a form element, and a bug on anything else. I could totally see the use of disabling an entire form, and to do that through a single attribute would not only be convenient, but more importantly would make sense semantically.
As a side note, the psudo-disable you mention is interesting. You can edit text, but not click form elements. Buggy behavior, but I could understand the benefit.
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