jQuery: change icon to greyscale

Question

hi all,

i made a button widget in jQuery which displays an icon. now when i set the button do disabled, i'd like to have it greyed-out. is there a jQery function to do this?

thx

Answer 1

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sprites2/

Sprites are your answer.

Answer 2

If you don't want to create another version of the image then you can try using CSS to reduce the opacity of the button so it appears faded, or overlay a semi-transparent grey DIV to give a greyed-out effect.