Disabled Attribute

Hello,

Is disabled attribute available for <a> tag?
I am asking this because a new control in ASP.NET 3.5 is doing that.

Thanks,
Miguel

On 29 Nov, 13:37, shapper <mdmo... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

Is disabled attribute available for <a> tag?

Specification is here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#edef-A

and there's no "disabled" attribute. Only the user input controls
associated with <form> (<input>, <select> etc.) support disabled.

I am asking this because a new control in ASP.NET 3.5 is doing that.

Then don't choose to build your projects with broken tools, like these.

shapper wrote:

Hello,

Is disabled attribute available for <a> tag?

No.

I am asking this because a new control in ASP.NET 3.5 is doing that.

Even earlier ASP.NET does that, I see, and it works even in Firefox. But
it isn't valid HTML and you can't count on it working everywhere: the
link may continue to be functional in some browsers.

On Dec 2, 11:21 am, Mark <u... (AT) example (DOT) net> wrote:

Harlan Messinger wrote:
shapper wrote:
Hello,

Is disabled attribute available for <a> tag?

No.

I am asking this because a new control in ASP.NET 3.5 is doing that.

Even earlier ASP.NET does that, I see, and it works even in Firefox. But
it isn't valid HTML and you can't count on it working everywhere: the
link may continue to be functional in some browsers.

What does this attribute look like? Like this?

a href="http://www.google.co.uk/" disabled="disabled">This shouldn't
work</a>.

This doesn't work (in the sense that the link works) in either IE6 or
Firefox 2, although the link does have a strange appearance in IE6.

Yes, it changes the background color of the link.
This is a mess. I already reported to Microsoft.

And I got a way around. I implemented a template in Asp.Net.

Thanks,
Miguel