I am attempting to conditionally enable or disable HTML input based on the value of a variable. The "disable" part is working well, but the "enable" isn't, and I can't figure out why.

The code:

<--if variable is true...-->
<div id="disabledSearch" class="searchBox disabled">
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $('#disabledSearch :input').attr('disabled', true); 
    </script>

<--if variable is false-->
<div id="enabledSearch" class="searchBox">
    <script type="text/javascript">
        //This line isn't working:  
        $('#enabledSearch :input').removeAttr('disabled');
    </script>