Apparently a disabled is not handled by any event
Is there a way to work around this issue ?
Disabled elements "eat" clicks in some browsers - they neither respond to them, nor allow them to be captured by event handlers anywhere on either the element or any of its containers.
IMHO the simplest, cleanest way to "fix" this (if you do in fact need to capture clicks on disabled elements like the OP does) is just to add the following CSS to your page:
input[disabled] {pointer-events:none}
This will make any clicks on a disabled input fall through to the parent element, where you can capture them normally. (If you have several disabled inputs, you might want to put each into an individual container of its own, if they aren't already laid out that way - an extra The downside is that this trick unfortunately won't works for older browsers that don't support the If you need to support older browsers, you'll need to use one of the other answers! or a
pointer-events
CSS property. (It should work from IE 11, FF v3.6, Chrome v4): caniuse.com/#search=pointer-events