Disabled elements do not fire events, e.g. users cannot hover or click them to trigger a popover (or tooltip). You can however wrap the disabled element with a `DIV` and listen to the event fired on that element instead.

I have some controls that I need to disable when users don't have edit privileges, but are sometimes not wide enough to show the entire text of the selected option element.  In which case I've added a tool tip with ASP.NET and the following code



    ddl.Attributes.Add("onmouseover", "this.title=this.options[this.selectedIndex].title")

This works when the control is enabled, but doesn't work when it is disabled.

The following alert will not fire when a mouse is over the select element:



    <select disabled="disabled" onmouseover="alert('hi');">
        <option>Disabled</option>
    </select>

See this [**fiddle**](http://jsfiddle.net/KyleMit/CbEPj/).


**Q**: *Can I fire the `onmouseover` event for controls that are `disabled`?*