Disabled button still fires using ".click()"

Question

It seems disabled button "onclick" function is still fired when triggering it programmaticaly, eg:

<div>
   <input type="button" onclick="save()" id="saveButton"    value="save"  disabled="disabled" />
   <input type="button" onclick="byPassDisabled()" value="bypass disabled button"/>
<div id="counter">0</div>

function save(){
    var count = parseInt($('#counter').html());
    $('#counter').html(++count);
}
function byPassDisabled(){
     $('#saveButton').click();   
}

see http://jsfiddle.net/WzEvs/363/

In my situation, keyboards shortcuts are bound to functions triggering the ".click()" on buttons. I'll find it very annoying to have to disable the shorcuts or check if the button is disabled myself. I'd prefer a general solution fixing this problem.

• But why? This behavior doesn't seem fair to me.
• Any workaround?

Answer 1

The attribute only disables user interaction, the button is still usable programmatically.

So yeah, you gotta check

function byPassDisabled(){
    $('#saveButton:enabled').click();   
}

Alternatively don't use inline handlers.

$(document).on('click', '#saveButton:enabled', function(){
    // ...
});