diff --git a/src/lib/components/menu/MenuItem.svelte b/src/lib/components/menu/MenuItem.svelte
index 8b74baf..9424e01 100644
--- a/src/lib/components/menu/MenuItem.svelte
+++ b/src/lib/components/menu/MenuItem.svelte
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@
   import { forwardEventsBuilder } from "$lib/internal/forwardEventsBuilder";
   import { get_current_component } from "svelte/internal";
   import type { HTMLActionArray } from "$lib/hooks/use-actions";
-  const forwardEvents = forwardEventsBuilder(get_current_component());
+  const forwardEvents = forwardEventsBuilder(get_current_component(), [
+    { name: "click", shouldExclude: () => disabled },
+  ]);
   export let as: SupportedAs = "a";
   export let use: HTMLActionArray = [];
   export let disabled = false;
diff --git a/src/lib/internal/forwardEventsBuilder.ts b/src/lib/internal/forwardEventsBuilder.ts
index de6715d..7cb34d4 100644
--- a/src/lib/internal/forwardEventsBuilder.ts
+++ b/src/lib/internal/forwardEventsBuilder.ts
@@ -1,16 +1,22 @@
 // This is a modified version of code from hperrin/svelte-material-ui
-import type { SvelteComponent } from 'svelte';
+import type { SvelteComponent } from "svelte";
 import {
   bubble,
   listen,
   prevent_default,
   stop_propagation,
-} from 'svelte/internal';
+} from "svelte/internal";
 
 const MODIFIER_DIVIDER = "!";
-const modifierRegex = new RegExp(`^[^${MODIFIER_DIVIDER}]+(?:${MODIFIER_DIVIDER}(?:preventDefault|stopPropagation|passive|nonpassive|capture|once|self))+$`);
+const modifierRegex = new RegExp(
+  `^[^${MODIFIER_DIVIDER}]+(?:${MODIFIER_DIVIDER}(?:preventDefault|stopPropagation|passive|nonpassive|capture|once|self))+$`
+);
 
-export function forwardEventsBuilder(component: SvelteComponent, except: string[] = []) {
+type ForwardException = string | { name: string; shouldExclude: () => boolean };
+export function forwardEventsBuilder(
+  component: SvelteComponent,
+  except: ForwardException[] = []
+) {
   // This is our pseudo $on function. It is defined on component mount.
   let $on: (eventType: string, callback: (event: any) => void) => () => void;
   // This is a list of events bound before mount.
@@ -19,16 +25,29 @@ export function forwardEventsBuilder(component: SvelteComponent, except: string[
   // And we override the $on function to forward all bound events.
   component.$on = (fullEventType: string, callback: (event: any) => void) => {
     let eventType = fullEventType;
-    let destructor = () => { };
-    if (except.includes(eventType)) {
-      // Bail out of the event forwarding and run the normal Svelte $on() code
-      const callbacks = (component.$$.callbacks[eventType] || (component.$$.callbacks[eventType] = []));
-      callbacks.push(callback);
-      return () => {
-        const index = callbacks.indexOf(callback);
-        if (index !== -1)
-          callbacks.splice(index, 1);
-      };
+    let destructor = () => {};
+    for (let exception of except) {
+      if (typeof exception === "string" && exception === eventType) {
+        // Bail out of the event forwarding and run the normal Svelte $on() code
+        const callbacks =
+          component.$$.callbacks[eventType] ||
+          (component.$$.callbacks[eventType] = []);
+        callbacks.push(callback);
+        return () => {
+          const index = callbacks.indexOf(callback);
+          if (index !== -1) callbacks.splice(index, 1);
+        };
+      }
+      if (typeof exception === "object" && exception["name"] === eventType) {
+        let oldCallback = callback;
+        callback = (...props) => {
+          if (
+            !(typeof exception === "object" && exception["shouldExclude"]())
+          ) {
+            oldCallback(...props);
+          }
+        };
+      }
     }
     if ($on) {
       // The event was bound programmatically.