Styling a disabled input with css only

Question

I have sort of a strange situation. I'm trying to style a disabled input button because I have an annoying hover turning the text to white. This makes it confusing to the user because its acting like a normal button.

I have tried a few things, mainly css and a few jQuery things. I would like to keep this in css if at all posable.

This is my html, sorry it is in a larvel form helper.

{{ Form::submit('Change', array_merge($design_project->is_locked ? ['disabled' => 'disabled'] : [], ['class' => 'btn btn-blue span3'])) }} 

and this is what the browser generates

<input disabled="disabled" class="btn btn-blue span3" type="submit" value="Change"> 

and I was working on something like this

.btn:hover input[disabled], .btn:active input[disabled], .btn:focus input[disabled]{   color:green } 

Any help would be wonderful!

Answer 1

Use this CSS (jsFiddle example):

input:disabled.btn:hover, input:disabled.btn:active, input:disabled.btn:focus {   color: green } 

You have to write the most outer element on the left and the most inner element on the right.

.btn:hover input:disabled would select any disabled input elements contained in an element with a class btn which is currently hovered by the user.

I would prefer :disabled over [disabled], see this question for a discussion: Should I use CSS :disabled pseudo-class or [disabled] attribute selector or is it a matter of opinion?

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By the way, Laravel (PHP) generates the HTML - not the browser.

Answer 2

Let's just say you have 3 buttons:

<input type="button" disabled="disabled" value="hello world"> <input type="button" disabled value="hello world"> <input type="button" value="hello world"> 

To style the disabled button you can use the following css:

input[type="button"]:disabled{     color:#000; } 

This will only affect the button which is disabled.

To stop the color changing when hovering you can use this too:

input[type="button"]:disabled:hover{     color:#000; } 

You can also avoid this by using a css-reset.