I'm attempting to disable a submit button untill the user has filled out the input fields in the form.
I found THIS thread here which had a really good answer. I'm having just a little problem getting the submit button the re-enable when the fields are filled out.
Can someone please take a look at this function and help me figure out what I'm missing?
Any help would be greatly appreciated :D
Thank you.
Heres a Fiddle also
$(document).ready(function() {
var $submit = $("input[type=submit]");
if ( $("input:empty").length > 0 ) {
$submit.attr("disabled","disabled");
} else {
$submit.removeAttr("disabled");
}
});
<form method="POST" action="<%=request.ServerVariables("SCRIPT_NAME")%>">
User Name: <input name="Username" type="text" size="14" maxlength="14" /><br />
Password: <input name="last_name" type="password" size="14" maxlength="14"><br />
<input type="submit" value="Login" name="Submit" id="loggy">
</form>
$(document).ready(function() {
var $submit = $("input[type=submit]"),
$inputs = $('input[type=text], input[type=password]');
function checkEmpty() {
// filter over the empty inputs
return $inputs.filter(function() {
return !$.trim(this.value);
}).length === 0;
}
$inputs.on('blur', function() {
$submit.prop("disabled", !checkEmpty());
}).blur(); // trigger an initial blur
});
Working sample
Instead of blur you can also use keyup like:
$inputs.on('keyup', function() {
$submit.prop("disabled", !checkEmpty());
}).keyup(); // trigger an initial keyup
Also you can combine multiple events:
$inputs.on('keyup blur', function() {
$submit.prop("disabled", !checkEmpty());
}).keyup(); // trigger any one
In your question I don't see the code where you check the state of inputs constantly, I think the problem is that.
You can use live events to do that.
Using your code as example:
$(document).ready(function() {
var $submit = $("input[type=submit]");
function checkSubmitState()
{
if ( $("input:empty").length > 0 ) {
$submit.attr("disabled","disabled");
} else {
$submit.removeAttr("disabled");
}
}
// check the submit state on every change or blur event.
$("input").live("change blur", checkSubmitState);
});
Use the keyup event to check the value before running the condition:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('input:text, input:password').keyup(function() {
if ($(this).val() !== "") {
$('input:submit').removeAttr('disabled');
} else {
$('input:submit').attr('disabled', 'true');
}
});
});
http://jsfiddle.net/tovic/He4Kv/23/
Some of these answers here are a lil out of date as I was looking for a jQuery snippet. I tested them and they do not seem to function properly anymore due to deprecations I think.
So I made my own and here is a newer working way (jQuery >=3.0) which listens to on input event for example.
let inp = $('[type=text]'),
btn = $('[type=button]')
btn.prop('disabled', true)
inp.on('input', () => {
let empty = []
inp.map(v => empty.push(inp.eq(v).val()))
btn.prop('disabled', empty.includes(''))
})
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form>
<input type=text><br>
<input type=text><br>
<input type=text><br>
<input type=button value=Send>
</form>
A plain JavaScript example is here.