https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pass-disabled-to-gform_pre_render_2-for-dynamically-populated-dropdown Gravity Support Forums Topic: Pass 'disabled' to gform_pre_render_2 for dynamically populated dropdown en-US Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:54:44 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pass-disabled-to-gform_pre_render_2-for-dynamically-populated-dropdown#post-37598 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:56:44 +0000 David Smith 37598@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Abacus,</p> <p>Ah, I see. That makes this a little trickier. What you could do is the same check, but instead of skipping the parent category, you would set the value to a special key, like "CAT_PARENT". Then you could use a little jQuery like this to disable those elements:</p> <pre><code>[js] &lt;script type=&quot;text/javascript&quot;&gt; jQuery(document).ready(function($){ $(&#39;.populate-cats option[value=&quot;CAT_PARENT&quot;]&#39;).attr(&#39;disabled&#39;, true); }); &lt;/script&gt;</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pass-disabled-to-gform_pre_render_2-for-dynamically-populated-dropdown#post-37592 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:01:48 +0000 abacus718 37592@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi.. I want to SHOW the parent category, just not allow it to be selected. This would just not show the parent category at all, right? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pass-disabled-to-gform_pre_render_2-for-dynamically-populated-dropdown#post-37590 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:56:04 +0000 David Smith 37590@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi Abacus,</p> <p>You could check if the current category in the loop as any children and if so, skip it and move on the next category.</p> <pre><code>[php] $children = get_categories(array(&#39;child_of&#39; =&gt; $category-&gt;term_id)); if(!empty(children)) continue;</code></pre> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/pass-disabled-to-gform_pre_render_2-for-dynamically-populated-dropdown#post-37564 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:32:19 +0000 abacus718 37564@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Based on the post about populating a dropdown dynamically, I have a drop down that pulls from my CATEGORIES, from which I want the user to be able to select ONLY a category that has parent (e.g. If i have men, women and children as parent categories, and each of them contains "clothes" and "shoes" I want the user to only be able to select either Men &gt; Clothes or Men &gt; Shoes, but not just MEN. I'm passing the correct values to form and it's picking them up, but I can't figure out how to indicate which values (the parent categories) should be disabled/unavailable for the user to select. Thanks. /sarah </p>