Question

It works when I remove the disabled attribute on an input type text field but not textarea, why?

I set the textarea to be disabled like this:

    $('#message').attr('disabled', 'disabled');

which worked, but then later when I did this:

$('#message').removeAttr('disabled');

no luck.

The HTML:

     <textarea id="message">Type here...</textarea>

Answer 1

I’m not seeing what you’re saying is happening:

<textarea id="message" disabled="disabled">Type here...</textarea>

<input type="button" value="Enable Me!" />

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$(":button").click(function(){
    $("#message").removeAttr("disabled");
});

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http://jsfiddle.net/hunter/TRKzQ/

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I’m guessing some other javascript error is happening. Is there more code?