Hi there, > > Is there a bit of JS that will say > > onclick="this.submit.button.is.disabled.and.greyed.out" ? thanks for the answers everyone. all those examples worked well, except that turning the submit button to disabled (sor some reason) stops any of my data being submitted to the scripts that shove it into my mysql database. can't work it out, but I have found this script: http://javascript.internet.com/forms/submit-changer.html which just changes the submit button's message on submit. It'll do the job fine, and might not be as scary as a button suddenly blanking out - helps to give some feedback to the user. Cheers - dunstan --------------------------- Dorset, England http://www.1976design.com/ http://www.orchard.it/ http://www.maccaws.org/