jQuery Mobile Button Enable/Disable & TextArea auto reSize after change - button

Question

How to disable/enable a button? which is not in a form , in a navBar. I'v tried some examples , all fail.
I'm changing my textarea text $("textarea").val(x); The text is changing , the problem it doesn't get auto re-size , I see the ugly scroll bar on the side , If I manually resize it , its OK... is there a method to force refresh or something like that?
Thanks
Update (TextArea):
If i click on the text area and then press any key -> it opens up as should be,
I'm trying to simulate it .. but fail , the binding is works , but the trigger for keypress/keydown doesn't , I tried some codes from googling, this should work , I think , mayb for nomral jQuery 1.6 , but not jQuery mobile.. My test are are on Chrome and iPhone 4
$('#textarea').bind('click', function() {
var e = jQuery.Event("keypress", { keyCode: 64 });
$(this).trigger( e );
});

Answer 1

UPDATE:
Link button example:
http://jsfiddle.net/gRLYQ/6/
http://jsfiddle.net/gRLYQ/7/ (Header button example)
JS
var clicked = false;
$('#myButton').click(function() {
if(clicked === false) {
$(this).addClass('ui-disabled');
clicked = true;
alert('Button is now disabled');
}
});
$('#enableButton').click(function() {
$('#myButton').removeClass('ui-disabled');
clicked = false;
});
HTML
<div data-role="page" id="home">
<div data-role="content">
Click button
Enable button
</div>
</div>
NOTE: - http://jquerymobile.com/demos/1.0rc2/docs/buttons/buttons-types.html
Links styled like buttons have all the same visual options as true
form-based buttons below, but there are a few important differences.
Link-based buttons aren't part of the button plugin and only just use
the underlying buttonMarkup plugin to generate the button styles so
the form button methods (enable, disable, refresh) aren't supported.
If you need to disable a link-based button (or any element), it's
possible to apply the disabled class ui-disabled yourself with
JavaScript to achieve the same effect.

Answer 2

Regarding your second question, you can cause a textarea to autogrow by triggering a keyup() event on it.
Considering your original example code, the following works for me:
/*Note: I'm using 'on' instead of 'bind', because that's what I've actually tested
with, but I'm pretty sure this will work with 'bind' as well*/
$('#textarea').on('click', function() {
//First we'll add some text to #textarea
$('#textarea').val('some dummy text to be added to the textarea');
//Then we trigger keyup(), which causes the textarea to grow to fit the text
$('#textarea').keyup();
});
Short and sweet version of the above, this time chained and with no comments:
$('#textarea').on('click', function() {
$(this).val('some dummy text to be added to the textarea').keyup();
});
Adapted from here.