I have an input (button) on my page that looks like this:

```
<input id="the-button" type="submit" class="btn" value="Click me!">

```

I am overriding the form submit action so I can check a few things before actually submitting the form. Before doing this, I disable the button, so the user doesn't click it again and so they can see that the page is working.

```
$("#the-button").attr("disabled", true);

```

If I decide that the form should not be submitted, I re-enable the button.

```
$("#the-button").attr("disabled", false);

```

This works as expected in Chrome/Firefox, but in IE8 the button *appears* to be disabled, but you can still click on it. The desired behavior is to look enabled, but it is greyed out in IE.