Disabling radio buttons with jQuery

Remove your "each" and just use:

$('input[name=ticketID]').attr("disabled",true);

That simple. It works

I've refactored your code a bit, this should work:

jQuery("#loadActive").click(writeData);

function writeData() {
    jQuery("#chatTickets input:radio").attr('disabled',true);
}

If there are more than two radio buttons on your form, you'll have to modify the selector, for example, you can use the starts with attribute filter to pick out the radios whose ID starts with ticketID:

function writeData() {
    jQuery("#chatTickets input[id^=ticketID]:radio").attr('disabled',true);
}

First, the valid syntax is

jQuery("input[name=ticketID]")

second, have you tried:

jQuery(":radio")

instead?

third, why not assign a class to all the radio buttons, and select them by class?

just use jQuery prop

 $(".radio-button").prop("disabled", false);
 $(".radio-button").prop("disabled", true); // disable

I just built a sandbox environment with your code and it worked for me. Here is what I used:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>test</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <form id="chatTickets" method="post" action="/admin/index.cfm/">
      <input id="ticketID1" type="radio" checked="checked" value="myvalue1" name="ticketID"/>
      <input id="ticketID2" type="radio" checked="checked" value="myvalue2" name="ticketID"/>
    </form>
    <a href="#" title="Load ActiveChat" id="loadActive">Load Active</a>

    <script>
      jQuery("#loadActive").click(function() {
        //I have other code in here that runs before this function call
        writeData();
      });
      function writeData() {
        jQuery("input[name='ticketID']").each(function(i) {
            jQuery(this).attr('disabled', 'disabled');
        });
      }
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

I tested in FF3.5, moving to IE8 now. And it works fine in IE8 too. What browser are you using?

Disabling radio buttons with jQuery

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