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How to disable Anchor tag in IE and Firefox?







I have searched many sites for to disable anchor and I know that IE supports ‘disable’ property for anchor tag, however Firefox does not support this. So whenever you try with ‘disable’ property of an anchor tag “<a></a>” you will get proper output in IE browser but not in Firefox browsers.


I have found a very good article which disables the anchor tag using few tricks because without tricks it is not possible to mange disable anchor in Firefox. You can find this article here. However, you can copy the same javascript script of above article as below.

function disableAnchor(obj, disable){
if(disable){
var href = obj.getAttribute("href");
if(href && href != "" && href != null){
obj.setAttribute('href_bak', href);
}
obj.removeAttribute('href');
obj.style.color="gray";
}
else{
obj.setAttribute('href', obj.attributes['href_bak'].nodeValue);
obj.style.color="blue";
}
}

Also note that you can perform the same thing on the code behind (for asp.net) if you are using a server control for anchor tag and you want to disable the anchor, you just need to remove the ‘href’ property using MyAnchor.Attributes.Remove("href") and then just apply gray color to anchor and its done. It will work in both IE and Firefox (javascript and server code both).


Happy Programming!!

Comments

  1. UnknownMarch 13, 2015 at 3:19 AM


    There are several ways to Disable the anchor element href . 3 Simple Methods of 'How to Disable Anchor Tag' in a Very Small Line of Code is given in the link below

    http://techniblogic.com/how-to-disable-anchor-tag-href-links-by-html-css-javascript/
    MUST CHECK
    It is the simplest way i have founded to disable the anchor tag

    ReplyDelete
  2. UnknownJanuary 15, 2019 at 3:03 AM

    How to disable anchor tag Latest Method Here

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