how to enable default after event.preventDefault()?

Question

jquery toggle calls preventDefault() by default, so the defaults don't work. you can't click a checkbox, you cant click a link etc etc

is it possible to restore the default handler?

Answer 1

in some cases* you can initially return false instead of e.preventDefault(), then when you want to restore the default to return true.

*Meaning when you don't mind the event bubbling and you don't use the e.stopPropagation() together with e.preventDefault()

Also see similar question (also in stack Overflow)

or in the case of checkbox you can have something like:

$(element).toggle(function(){
  $(":checkbox").attr('disabled', true);
  },
function(){
   $(":checkbox").removeAttr('disabled');
})