How can I disable a specific LI element inside a UL?

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user811433 picture user811433 · Mar 26, 2013 · Viewed 111.3k times · Source

I have a menu which is a <ul>. Each menu item is a <li> and currently clickable. Based on some conditions, I want to disable (make it not clickable) a particular <li> element. How can I achieve this? I tried using the disabled attribute on the <li> and list-style:none as well. Neither worked. Any suggestions?

Answer

Tony L. picture Tony L. · Mar 9, 2016

If you still want to show the item but make it not clickable and look disabled with CSS:

CSS:

.disabled {
    pointer-events:none; //This makes it not clickable
    opacity:0.6;         //This grays it out to look disabled
}

HTML:

<li class="disabled">Disabled List Item</li>

Also, if you are using BootStrap, they already have a class called disabled for this purpose. See this example.

As @LV98 pointed out, users could change this on the client side and submit a selection you weren't expecting. You will want to validate at the server as well.

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