I have a jQuery dialog that requires the user to enter certain information. In this form, I have a "continue" button. I would like this "continue" button to only be enabled once all the fields have content in them, else it will remain disabled.
I wrote a function that is called everytime a field status has changed. However, I don't know how to enable and disable the dialog button from this function. What should I do?
Oops and I forgot to mention that these buttons were created as follows:
$(function() {
$("#dialog").dialog({
bgiframe: true,
height: 'auto',
width: 700,
show: 'clip',
hide: 'clip',
modal: true,
buttons: {
'Add to request list': function() {
$(this).dialog('close');
$('form').submit();
},
'Cancel': function() {
$(this).dialog('close');
}
}
})
});
You would want to set the disabled property
$('#continueButton').attr("disabled", true);
Update: Ahha, I see the complexity now. The jQuery Dialog had a single line that will be of use (under the "buttons" section.
var buttons = $('.selector').dialog('option', 'buttons');
You'll need to get the buttons collection from the dialog, loop through that to find which one you need, and then set the disabled attribute as I showed above.