DOM Manipulation: How to Enable / Disable Element in jQuery

What I love about jQuery is its effectiveness in dealing with DOM manipulation. You can easily select, add or remove classes in your html document. You can also manipulate html attributes on the fly. For example if you want to disable / enable element, all you have to do is to set disabled attribute to "disabled" using the following code.

/* to disable */ 
$('.myElement').attr('disabled', 'disabled'); 

To enable it just simply removed the added "disabled" attribute or you can assign an empty string value to disabled attribute.

$('.myElement').attr('disabled', '');  

OR

$('.myElement').removeAttr('disabled');