dijit/MenuItem disabled but not grayed out automatically

Question

I used dijit/MenuItem in a popup menu for the JS Canvas object. When user right click the Canvas, I want to show the menu and disable some items based on the location that user selected. Hence, I code in the onmousedonw event of the Canvas to disable the item.

Everything works fine except that when I right click and the menuitem change from enabled to disabled, the item in the menu is still showing as normal state until I move mouse over it and then it shows gray as disabled. Is there a way that I can somehow "refresh" the menuitem after changing the disabled state so that it will be shown as grayed out immediately when the menu show?

HTML for the menu

<ul dojoType="dijit/Menu" id="menu" style="display: none;border-radius:3px;">
<div dojoType="dijit/MenuItem" id="Popup_Cut"><span>Cut</span></div></ul>

JS for the disable

function handleMouseDown(event) {

 if(...)
     dijit.byId("Popup_Cut").disabled = true;
}

Answer 1

Instead of using the property disabled, use the set method instead:

dijit.byId('Popup_Cut').set("disabled",true);

Had the same problem, and this worked for me.

More info on set: http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.8/dijit/info.html#set-and-get