[thelist] onclick="this.submit.button.is.disabled.and.greyed. out" ?

[Plunkett, Matt]

You could define a top level JavaScript variable and check whether it is
true or false in a handler for your onclick.  Just set bBusy to true when
your page is busy.  I don't think you can "grey out" a normal button, but
you could easily make a button-like div whose style you changed when bBusy
was true...then you could just remove the else below.

<input type="button" OnClick="do_submit()">

<script>
	var bBusy = false;

	function do_submit()
	{
		if (!bBusy) { yourform.submit(); }
		else { alert("Wait a durn second there."); }
	}
</script>

-----Original Message-----
From: Dunstan Orchard [mailto:dunstan at 1976design.com]
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 10:48 AM
To: evolt list
Subject: [thelist]
onclick="this.submit.button.is.disabled.and.greyed.out" ?


Hey there,

I have a form where people can upload images.
Some of the images are quite big and take about 30 seconds to upload (mind
you, that's probably cause I'm connecting at a blistering 44k).

I am worried that someone will click 'submit' a second, third or fourth time
during this upload time, thinking that the process isn't working (as my
parents are want to do - "STOP CLICKING MUM, IT'S WORKING!"), thus
submitting
multiple copies of the form, or screwing things up generally.

Is there a bit of JS that will say
onclick="this.submit.button.is.disabled.and.greyed.out" ?


Once the images have uploaded the page reloads so I guess the button would
return to normal again.

Thanks very much - dunstan

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