Add .disable() and .check() methods

[john]

These would be very useful (a quick map on top of .attr() and also for mapping to UI widget factory disabling, etc.).

[Rick Waldron]

Thanks for taking the time to contribute to the jQuery project! Please provide a jsFiddle that outlines practical use cases for your enhancement request.

[john]

Example: ​http://jsfiddle.net/QtacS/

[Rick Waldron]

Thanks, I've forked the fiddle and have a few brainstorming questions that I've noted in the code as comments.

​http://jsfiddle.net/rwaldron/tAnMH/1/

[Rick Waldron]

Per discussion: This feature provides a convenience method for disabling/enabling form elements that support the disabled property, as well as any plugins that support listening for triggered "disabled" or "enabled" events.

​http://jsfiddle.net/rwaldron/tAnMH/2/

(fixed a typo with trigger("enabled") )

[snover]

Will there also be convenience functions for detecting/modifying checked and selected elements as part of this change?

[dmethvin]

I'd like to see this done a bit differently, with a single .disable(boolean) method. Otherwise the code will often look like $("#thing")[cond?"enable":"disable"]();

[john]

We should consider this for 1.7.

I think the problem of check()/select() is different - as both of those can (and probably should) be manipulated through .val().

[Timmy Willison]

#9189 is a duplicate of this ticket.

[Timmy Willison]

Select should be manipulated through val. Check can't be though. I'm not sure how I feel about all this. It's a little too easy to do this with raw javascript, but this might be something more in dave's direction: ​http://jsfiddle.net/timmywil/QtacS/3/

[john]

Nominating ticket for 1.7 discussion.

[Rick Waldron]

+1,

[jaubourg]

-1, again, let's make an official plugin with all those helpers and let's not clobber core anymore than it needs to.

[Timmy Willison]

+0, disable could be convenient. I've gravitated towards against doing .check at all though.

[john]

-1, Don't think this is really needed much anymore, given that we have .attr("checked", true) working.

[scottgonzalez]

-1, I don't think we need help methods for every little thing, these are already straight-forward with existing APIs

[ajpiano]

+1, I've been really unclear of the utility of these to begin with

[jzaefferer]

-1

[Rick Waldron]

We recommend using attr()