“Disabling” an HTML table with Javascript

Question

I\'ve seen this done in a lot of sites recently, but can\'t seem to track one down. Essentially I want to \"disable\" an entire panel (that\'s in the form on an HTML table) whe

Answer 1

Somebody please correct me if I am wrong, but I have seen Javascript and some derivate Javascript libraries that have a lot of options for accomplishing for what you would like to do. I have used the jQuery library to do some similar effects.

One thing to think about is what exactly you are trying to disable. Essentially tables are not interactive so disabling a table would not accomplish much. If it is the form elements within the table you want to disable. You can accomplish this using JavaScript.

Along with using JavaScript for disabling the form elements, you can also use it to change properties of the non interactive elements.

An example of this would be using JavaScript to change the color of the font and borders and other non interactive elements in the table to give the "look" of being disabled. Of course you still need to use JavaScript to disable the form elements.