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Joel
Joel

Reputation: 6211

Enable and Disable Input Field On Click (not toggle)

Q: How do i make a field disable and then another one enable when clicking on an anchor tag.

Progress so far: Disabling the field works, but Re-enabling the field is just another click away unfortunately. Also, the second field doesn't get enabled on the click.

// When clicking "Lock your username" that input field should be disabled, 
//and the Comment section should be enabled
$("#lock").click(function() {
  $("#sender").attr('disabled', !$("#sender").attr('disabled'));
  $("#message").attr('disabled', !$("#message").attr('enabled'));

});

//problems right now:
// clicking twice re-enables the field.
// from what i've understood, disabled fields cannot be targeted with event handlers?
//
//
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form id="formInput">
  <input type="text" id="sender" placeholder="Your Name" />

  <a id="lock" style="border:1px solid rgba(000,200,000,0.5);background:#ccc;cursor:pointer;padding:2px;width:150px">Lock your username</a>

  <div id="messages" style="height:100px; border:1px solid #000;width:200px;">
    &nbsp; Messages will go here
  </div>
  <input type="text" id="message" placeholder="write your comment here" autocomplete="off" disabled />
  <input type="submit" id="send" style="border:1px solid rgba(000,200,000,0.5);background:#ccc;cursor:pointer;padding:2px;width:150px" value="send message" />

</form>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5223

Answers (4)

Pranav C Balan
Pranav C Balan

Reputation: 115282

You can use prop() with callback function , this will toggle the disabled property

$("#lock").click(function(e) {
  $("#sender,#message").prop('disabled', function(i, v) {
    return !v;
  });
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form id="formInput">
  <input type="text" id="sender" placeholder="Your Name" />
  <a id="lock" style="border:1px solid rgba(000,200,000,0.5);">Lock your username</a>
  <div id="messages" style="height:100px; border:1px solid #000;width:200px;">
    &nbsp;
  </div>
  <input type="text" id="message" placeholder="comment here" autocomplete="off" disabled/>
  <input type="button" id="send" value="send message" />
</form>

If you want only execute it once then use one()

$("#lock").one('click', function(e) {
  $("#sender,#message").prop('disabled', function(i, v) {
    return !v;
  });
});
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form id="formInput">
  <input type="text" id="sender" placeholder="Your Name" />
  <a id="lock" style="border:1px solid rgba(000,200,000,0.5);">Lock your username</a>
  <div id="messages" style="height:100px; border:1px solid #000;width:200px;">
    &nbsp;
  </div>
  <input type="text" id="message" placeholder="comment here" autocomplete="off" disabled/>
  <input type="button" id="send" value="send message" />
</form>

Upvotes: 1

Rajan Goswami
Rajan Goswami

Reputation: 769

This should help:

$("#lock").click(function(){
    $("#sender").attr('disabled', !$("#sender").attr('disabled')); 
    $("#message").attr('disabled', !$("#message").attr('disabled')); 
});

Working Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/4u5yuu6f/

Upvotes: 2

Jrd
Jrd

Reputation: 728

What you could do is remove the handler after the click if you only want it to be done once. Something like this:

var lockHandler = function () {
    $('#sender').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
    $('#message').attr('disabled', null);
    $('#lock').off('click', lockHandler);
}

$('#lock').on('click', lockHandler);

Probably also want to check to make sure there is an actual user name entered before removing it.

Upvotes: 3

Alexis
Alexis

Reputation: 5831

For Jquery 1.6+ you can use 

$("input").prop('disabled', true);
$("input").prop('disabled', false);

Upvotes: 2

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