I wanted to have some radio buttons that disabled when the mouse went over and enabled again when it went out (just for fun).
<form>
<input type="radio" name="rigged" onMouseOver="this.disabled=true" onMouseOut="this.disabled=false">
</form>
When the mouse goes on it it does what it should be when it goes back off the button wont re-enable. Also, how do I make it default to enable so that when you refresh the page it doesn't stay disabled.
Thanks in advance.
I had a similar problem with wanting an image to expose, and then go regular when the mouse left the image. I was using jQuery and ended up hooking into mouseenter and mouseout, instead of the events you are using. You might want to try those.
$('#rigged').mouseenter(function() {
$(this).disabled = true;
}).mouseout(function() {
$(this).disabled = false;
});
Something like that.
Again, that's using jQuery.
(You'll have to give the input radio button the id 'rigged')
You could achieve the same effect by wrapping your radio buttons in a div tag and setting the onmouseover and onmouseout events.
<div id="container" onmouseout="this.disabled=false" onmouseover="this.disabled=true">
<input name="rigged" type="radio">
</div>
The above solution only works in IE, for a solution that works in FireFox do the following.
<script type="text/javascript">
function toggleDisabled(el) {
try {
el.disabled = el.disabled ? false : true;
}
catch(E){
}
if (el.childNodes && el.childNodes.length > 0) {
for (var x = 0; x < el.childNodes.length; x++) {
toggleDisabled(el.childNodes[x]);
}
}
}
</script>
*This javaScript function was borrowed from here: Enable or disable DIV tag and its inner controls using Javascript
<div id="container" onmouseover="toggleDisabled(this)" onmouseout="toggleDisabled(this)">
<input name="rigged" type="radio">
</div>
I think when it's becoming disabled, it's not going to fire any events. You could try a few things.
On mouseover, make an invisible div overlay the radio box. This will make it impossible to use. Then on the mouseout of this invisible div, remove the div.
You could play with mouse x and y coords, and see if they overlay your radio elements. This isn't an optimal solution though.
Markup for the first, in jQuery, would go something like this
$('#rigged').after('<div id="overlay" style="display: none;"></div>'); // make this the size of the radio button and/or associated label (if present). also, maybe with absolute and relative positioning, make sure it will overlap the radio element
$('#rigged').bind('mouseover', function() {
$('#overlay').show();
});
$('#overlay').live('mouseout', function() {
$(this).hide();
});
You'll need to adapt this to work with multiple elements.
The inputs do not fire the mouseout events because they are disabled.
So you have to wrap it in a div and catch the div's events.
If you want pure javascript, use Phaedrus's example "toggleDisabled" script.
If you want jQuery and not-so-newbie friendly:
<html>
<head>
<title>Page</title>
<script src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(function() {
function toggleDisabled(d) {
var disable = d;
this.disableChildren = function() { $(this).children().each(function() { this.disabled = d; }); }
}
$("form .radios").hover(new toggleDisabled(true).disableChildren, new toggleDisabled(false).disableChildren);
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<div class="radios">
<input type="radio" name="rigged" value="1"/> Item One<br />
<input type="radio" name="rigged" value="2"/> Item Two<br />
<input type="radio" name="rigged" value="3"/> Item Three<br />
<input type="radio" name="rigged" value="4"/> Item Four
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>