Policy
Control the new behavior for event dispatching on disabled form controls (obsolete)
Microsoft Edge
Policy overview
Key metadata and intent for this policy.
Supported OS tags: Windows7
OBSOLETE: This policy is obsolete and doesn't work after Microsoft Edge 120. Event dispatching on disabled form controls is being changed in Microsoft Edge to improve compatibility with other browsers and to improve the developer experience. With this change, MouseEvents get dispatched on disabled form control elements. Exceptions for this behavior are click, mouseup, and mousedown. Some examples of the new events are mousemove, mouseenter, and mouseleave. This change also truncates the event path of click, mouseup, and mousedown when they’re dispatched on children of disabled form controls. These events aren’t dispatched on the disabled form control or on any of its ancestors. Note: This new behavior might break some websites. If you enable or don't configure this policy, the new behavior is used. If you disable this policy, the old behavior is used.
Registry values
How enabled and disabled states update the registry.
| Scope | Registry location | Type | Enabled value | Disabled value | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Path Software\Policies\Microsoft\Edge Value name SendMouseEventsDisabledFormControlsEnabled | REG_DWORD | HKLM 1 HKCU 1 | HKLM 0 HKCU 0 |
Policy elements
Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.
This policy has no additional user input fields.