I have the following form and javascript:
<script type="text/javascript">
function toggleButton(ref,bttnID){
document.getElementById(bttnID).disabled= ((ref.value !== ref.defaultValue) ? false : true);
}
</script>
<form action="" method="post" id="subscribe" name="subscribe">
<label>NAME:</label>
<input type="text" name="name" class="subName" onkeyup="toggleButton(this,'bttnsubmit');">
<label>EMAIL:</label>
<input type="text" name="email" class="subEmail" id="sub_email">
<input type="button" name="button" value="Subscribe" disabled='disabled' id='bttnsubmit'/>
</form>
When I first load my site the SUBMIT button is disabled, as I wanted, since the text field has no text in it. Now I would like to enable the button once some text has been placed within the text field.
Any help please?
Using jQuery:
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#bttnsubmit').attr('disabled','disabled');
$('input[type="text"]').keyup(function() {
if($(this).val() != '') {
$('input[type="submit"]').removeAttr('disabled');
}
});
});
source: jQuery disable/enable submit button
The existing code in the question worked fine, but gets disabled when the text is removed. This may be desired by others but you could make a small change to have it permanently removed without needing jquery (jquery wasn't in the tags)
function toggleButton(ref,bttnID){
document.getElementById(bttnID).removeAttribute("disabled");
}
and add onkeyup="toggleButton(this,'bttnsubmit')
to any fields that need to enable the button
Adding the final code that did the trick:
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#bttnsubmit').attr('disabled','disabled');
$('#subEmail').keyup(function() {
if($(this).val() != '') {
$('#bttnsubmit').removeAttr('disabled');
}
else {
$('#bttnsubmit').attr('disabled','disabled');
}
});
});
</script>