A particular project I’m working on requires graying out options in a drop down box. I discovered the disabled attribute, which can be used as follows:

<select name="range">
    <option value="7">last 7</option>
    <option value="30">last 30</option>
    <option value="60" disabled="disabled">last 60</option>
</select>

Normally you can just write ‘disabled’, but to be valid XHTML, you need the disabled=’disabled’ variant. The point is, this […]

Like Brian, I’ve been frustrated by something inane lately, only it doesn’t have to do with code that’s not working. It’s simply that something doesn’t feel right about my interface. I have a series of navigational tabs on the top, then a column of content (a graph that consumes the width of my […]