Disabled components enabled on client side don't update

Question

If I set a component in my jsp as disabled, such as a checkbox, it shows up on the client side disabled as one would expect.
However, if I use javascript to enable it, and change it's value, then submit the page, the value is never updated as you would expect.
What's the scoop?
Thanks,
Mike.

Answer 1

C> If I set a component in my jsp as disabled, such as a checkbox, it
C> shows up on the client side disabled as one would expect.
C> However, if I use javascript to enable it, and change it's value,
C> then submit the page, the value is never updated as you would expect.
Here's one possible solution until we can figure out something more
clean.
You're using client JavaScript to modify the enabled/disabled state of a
component in the page, and you want that setting to be reflected when
the page is processed by JSF, right? Well, have you client javascript
generate a hidden field containing the enabled/disabled state of the
component. You install a PhaseListener for the before
ApplyRequestValues phase that looks for the hidden field and modifies
the component accordingly.
This isn't as hacky as it sounds when you consider that you can use such
a "before" phase to handle any and all JS mods and apply them to the
component tree before any decoding occurrs.
Ed JSR-252 Spec co-lead