Need help enabling a disabled form button on HTTP

[freestyle]

Hi guys, i need help enable a disabled form button on HTTP. I heard i could just easily do it using the inspect element function in google chrome. Could anyone advise please?

 

[davidktw]

Hi guys, i need help enable a disabled form button on HTTP. I heard i could just easily do it using the inspect element function in google chrome. Could anyone advise please?

Yes, you can do that, like in the image shown below

You can edit the "disable" attribute of the HTML input button to enable it. But these days, a lot of of graphical buttons are CSS controlled. The styling is why the button seems disabled. There are also javascript bindings manipulated to control the accessibility of the control. So it's not always an easy feat for layman.

Most important of all, forcefully manipulating the state of the control does not necessarily gives you any control. The control, in a properly designed web software often is controlled at the server side. When a feature is disabled, it is reflected in the web end (also known as the client end), but ultimately the feature availability is checked at the server end during execution. If you enable the control at the client end, but the server end still remains disabled, it wouldn't function properly.

You are free to test it out to see if the software developer did things the right way. For your information, what you are doing is potentially a security breach in the system if your forceful approach works.