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JavaScript

Posted by Petar Brkovic
Petar Brkovic
8,651 Points

How to change background color of a submit button?

There was this course on JQuery basics, and the project was creating submit form. We ended up disabling submit form in case that passwords aren't matching, and if the password had less then 8 characters.

Now i'm wondering how could I change its background color to grey while it's disabled?

1 Answer

zazza
zazza
21,750 Points
zazza
zazza
21,750 Points

Don't recall that class but you can just use the :disabled pseudo class to apply styles when the disabled property is true. The pseudo class is pretty well supported (including IE 9 and above).

Using pure jQuery you could either toggle a class or add CSS manually in an event handler (e.g., detecting changes to input fields). But I'd only do that if you had to support IE 8 or below (and would definitely not go the manual CSS route).