How to disable a link button in jQuery Mobile?

Question

I have a jQuery Mobile Beta 1 website with jQuery 1.6.1 link button like this:

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Answer 1

The a element does not have a property disabled. So defining one won't affect any event handlers you may have attached to it.

example: http://jsfiddle.net/niklasvh/n2eYS/

For a list of available attributes, have a look at the HTML 5 reference.

To solve your problem, you could instead for example assign the disabled as data in the element:

$('#subselection').data('disabled',true);

and then in your event check if its set:

if (!$(this).data('disabled'))

example: http://jsfiddle.net/niklasvh/n2eYS/5/