Disabling LinkButton, HyperLink and ImageButton completely

I was just going through one of my previous project and saw some code to disable the LinkButton, HyperLink and ImageButton; after going through it I remembered the issues we had faced with different browsers trying to disable these controls(with proper functionality, styling etc.). Hope posting these functions will help someone.

/// <summary>

/// Disables the link button.

/// </summary>

/// <param name="linkButton">The LinkButton to be disabled.</param>

public static void DisableLinkButton(LinkButton linkButton)

{

linkButton.Attributes.Remove("href");

linkButton.Attributes.CssStyle[HtmlTextWriterStyle.Color] = "gray";

linkButton.Attributes.CssStyle[HtmlTextWriterStyle.Cursor] = "default";

if (linkButton.Enabled != false)

{

linkButton.Enabled = false;

}

if (linkButton.OnClientClick != null)

{

linkButton.OnClientClick = null;

}

}

/// <summary>

/// Disables the hyper link.

/// </summary>

/// <param name="hyperLink">The HyperLink to be disabled.</param>

public static void DisableHyperLink(HyperLink hyperLink)

{

hyperLink.NavigateUrl = string.Empty;

hyperLink.Attributes.Remove("href");

hyperLink.Attributes.CssStyle[HtmlTextWriterStyle.Color] = "gray";

hyperLink.Attributes.CssStyle[HtmlTextWriterStyle.Cursor] = "default";

if (hyperLink.Enabled != false)

{

hyperLink.Enabled = false;

}

}

/// <summary>

/// Disables the image button.

/// </summary>

/// <param name="imageButton">The ImageButton to be disabled.</param>

public static void DisableImageButton(ImageButton imageButton)

{

imageButton.CommandArgument = string.Empty;

imageButton.CommandName = string.Empty;

imageButton.PostBackUrl = string.Empty;

imageButton.Attributes.Remove("href");

imageButton.Attributes.CssStyle[HtmlTextWriterStyle.Color] = "gray";

imageButton.Attributes.CssStyle[HtmlTextWriterStyle.Cursor] = "default";

if (imageButton.Enabled != false)

{

imageButton.Enabled = false;

}

if (imageButton.OnClientClick != null)

{

imageButton.OnClientClick = null;

}

}