How can I disable an element using jQuery Multifile?

Question

This code does not disable my element as expected

if(Multifile.n==0){
    $("#btnUpload").attr("disabled","disabled");
}

This code does not enable my element as expected

$("#btnUpload").attr("disabled","");

I added these lines in jQuery.MultiFile.js after what I believe is the location where files are added and removed from the MultiFile object. As far as I can tell, MultiFile.n is a counter.

How can I disable btnUpload when there are no files in the list, and enable it as long as there is at least one.

Answer 1

If there is a disabled attribute on the element, it will always be disabled, even if the attribute is empty. This is because the original (SGML variant of) HTML had attributes without values like this

<INPUT TYPE="text" DISABLED>

So you have to remove the attribute

$('#btnUpload').removeAttr('disabled');