I've found some inconsistent behavior in IE vs. FF and was wondering if someone might know a workaround.

I have some form fields, for which the HTML is generated by a template system out of my control. I want to set some of the fields to readonly so I wrap them in a <span> that has a readonly class. The HTML looks like this:

    <span class="readonly"><input type="text">Some text</input></span>

I have tried each of the following queries and none of them have the desired effect. Its like they aren't modifying the DOM.

      $("span.readonly input").attr("readonly", "readonly");
      $("span.readonly input").attr("disabled", "disabled");
      $("span.readonly input").focus(function() { $(this).blur(); });

These work (with varying effects) in FF but not in IE. However if I manually put the attributes (or script) on an input field in IE it does work. I know I have the queryright because I did this

      $("span.readonly input").focus(function() { alert('here'); });

and I get a popup when I click on the field.


Can anyone help with this?

Thanks,
-Dave





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