Question

i have this problem: i need to remove the “disabled” attibute from the siblings inputs of submit input. Here is the html:

<td>
<input type="hidden" value="2000000000002_STATUTO_07_10_2010.gif" name="nomeDocumento" disabled="true">
<input type="hidden" value="811ecdd0-65e9-49d6-8d9d-8b7c9d9b6407" name="UUID" disabled="true">   
<input type="submit" value="cancella" name="cancella">
</td>

i need a simple way using jquery to remove the disable attribute when i click on the submit.
I tried:

$('input[name=cancella]').click(function(){
$('this').prev().removeAttr('disabled');
$('this').prev().prev().removeAttr('disabled');
}

But i doesn’t work.

Any suggestion?

Answer 1

$('input[name=cancella]').click(function(){
   $(this)
      .closest('td')
      .find('input[name!='+this.name+']')
      .attr('disabled', false);
});

Fabrizio Calderan .prevAll() way is better.
However, .siblings() could be even better, so it doesn’t matter where the siblings are.

$('input[name=cancella]').click(function(){
   $(this).siblings('input').attr('disabled', false);
});

Using .attr('disabled', false) should work as well and could be more reliable.