Re: [Lynx-dev] Lynx "form select option disabled" problem

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Paavo Hartikainen wrote:

> I came across with this misbehaviour on Zope management interface,
> where it was impossible to add items with Lynx.
>
> When first "option" element of "select" does have "disabled"
> attribute, Lynx turns entire "option/choice list" UNMODIFIABLE.
> "disabled" attribute of later "option" elements within same "select"
> do not have effect.  If "disabled" attribute is honored, it should
> disable only that element, not parent element or sibling elements.
>
> Tested:
>
> Lynx 2.8.5rel.2 (MacOS X 10.4, PowerPC, DarwinPorts package)
> Lynx 2.8.2rel.1 (OpenBSD 3.2, SPARC, OpenBSD package)

It's still doing that in 2.8.5dev.13 (thanks).

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