Howto disable a button within APEX?

This might sound like APEX for dummies, but I'm currently having an issue with presenting a plain old HTML button in APEX in disabled mode (non-clickable). In HTML this is no problem when using "disabled", but in APEX, it doesn't work because APEX makes "disabled=" out of "disabled".
1. How can I display the button in a "disabled" state within APEX?
2. How can I dynamically determine if the button should be displayed as disabled or not?
Any help is appreciated.

Hi,
I did something very similar recently (and to be honest the methodology is very close to what Riedelme has suggested already):
1) Create a hidden item in the region containing the button(s) to be disabled (ensure it is AFTER the buttons you wish to disable)
2) In the Post Element Text field of the item, enter Javascript to disable the button(s) - for example :
<script type="text/javascript">
$x_disableItem('P999_BUTTON1',true);
$x_disableItem('P999_BUTTON2,true);
etc.
</script>
3) Set the Conditional Display of this item to the result of a PL/SQL function returning BOOLEAN - in this case this would be your authorisation function or whatever. Or you could use whichever conditional formula meets your setup.
This way, whenever this hidden item is loaded i.e. authorisation fails for example, the javascript snippet will be loaded and executed, and your buttons will be disabled!
Hope that makes sense!
Chris

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