Disabled attribute in selectitem not working

Question

According to the beta 1.0 spec in 9.4.9, <f:selectitem> has a disabled attribute, but UISelectItem (4.1.11.2) doesn't mention it.
I can put it in the tag:
<f:selectitem  itemValue="AZ" itemLabel="AZ" disabled="true"/>with no complaint, but it doesn't seem to make any difference in the rendered HTML.

Answer 1

Yep, that's a bug. The tag class for <f:selectitem>
is not passing the "disabled" flag on to the
underlying SelectItem bean. This will be fixed for
the final release.
CraigA couple of pieces of further information on this:
I've been able to work around this kind of problem (in the beta) by using a backing bean to calculate the list of SelectItem instances to be displayed, accessed something like this:
<h:select_one id="selection" value="...">
  <f:selectitems value="#{mybean.validSelections}"/>
</h:select_one/>
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where the getValidSelections() method of your backing bean returns a List of javax.faces.model.SelectItem beans.  Any "disabled" property on these beans will be honored.
However, my experiments with Internet Explorer 6 so far indicate that it seems to ignore the following W3C standard syntax to disable an available option:<option value="foo" disabled="disabled">The Foo Option</option>
We are still investigating this issue -- any information or feedback that might be helpful should be sent to <[email protected]>.
Craig McClanahan