select option disabled and internet explore

[blackhorse]

Unlike FireFox, Internet Explorer doesn't support select option disabled attribute in the drop down menu.

How do you handle this issue in a simple method? Javascript or php solutions?

I want to set up certain options from the drop down menu to be disabled, if some php condition matched.

<option ... <?php if (...) { ?> disabled<?php ?>> get the 20% raise this year</option>

It works in the firefox but not in the internet explorer.

Thanks!

[JPnyc]

A JavaScript solution makes the most sense I think. I've never done it but basically one way to do it is merely to set that options display property to none. You can do this by using the options array.

document.getElementsByTagName('select')[0].options;

This is of course assuming that it's the first select box on your page. If not, you have to change the zero after select