230302 - Setting the disabled attribute of a textbox only halfway enables it.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 174492

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Edward Duffy]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030916

I was using the DOM tree to disable and enable various elements on a XUL page,
but textboxes would only partly re-enable.  What I mean is, I could set the
disable attribute to 'true', and the textbox would go gray and I couldn't click
on it (fine).  But if I set the disable attribute to 'false', it was drawn
correctly (white background) but I was unable to click on it and actualy type
some input.  I had to actually remove the disable attribute in order to get
control back.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. document.getElementById('my-textbox').setAttribute('disabled', 'false');
Actual Results:  
The textbox was drawn correctly, but didn't not respond to events.

Expected Results:  
It should have responded to events.

Comment 1

[Edward Duffy]

Attachment: Bug in action.

Here's a simple XUL page that you can test the bug with.

Comment 2

[Bruce Davidson]

Unless I'm missing something the XUL spec doesn't specify a disabled attribute
for textboxes. It does specify a readonly attribute. See
http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/xulref/textbox.html

Comment 3

[Edward Duffy]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 174492 ***