Widget: Added suppressDisabledCheck flag to _on(). Fixes #8800 - Widget: Ability to use _on() even when disabled.

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js b/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js
index 5a069f2ef..83696e940 100644
--- a/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js
+++ b/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js
@@ -359,9 +359,17 @@ $.Widget.prototype = {
 		return this._setOption( "disabled", true );
 	},
 
-	_on: function( element, handlers ) {
+	_on: function( suppressDisabledCheck, element, handlers ) {
 		var delegateElement,
 			instance = this;
+
+		// no suppressDisabledCheck flag, shuffle arguments
+		if ( typeof suppressDisabledCheck !== "boolean" ) {
+			handlers = element;
+			element = suppressDisabledCheck;
+			suppressDisabledCheck = false;
+		}
+
 		// no element argument, shuffle and use this.element
 		if ( !handlers ) {
 			handlers = element;
@@ -378,8 +386,9 @@ $.Widget.prototype = {
 				// allow widgets to customize the disabled handling
 				// - disabled as an array instead of boolean
 				// - disabled class as method for disabling individual parts
-				if ( instance.options.disabled === true ||
-						$( this ).hasClass( "ui-state-disabled" ) ) {
+				if ( !suppressDisabledCheck &&
+						( instance.options.disabled === true ||
+							$( this ).hasClass( "ui-state-disabled" ) ) ) {
 					return;
 				}
 				return ( typeof handler === "string" ? instance[ handler ] : handler )