I have the following HTML and jquery:
<html dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Test disabling submit button for 1 minute...</h2>
<br/>
<p style="text-align:center">
<form id="yourFormId" name="yourFormId" method="post" action="#">
<input type="submit" class="submitBtn" value="I Accept"/>
</form>
</p>
<!--script to disable the submit button -->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$(".submitBtn").click(function () {
$(".submitBtn").attr("disabled", true);
return true;
});
});
</script>
<!--script ends here-->
</body>
</html>
As its stands the submit button gets disabled when pressed. However once pressed it does not seem perform the submit. If I removed the jquery to disable the button, the button then performs the submit normally.
How can I disable the button only after it has performed the submit? the current jquery above seems to conflict with the submit operation.
Any suggestions to resolve this issue would be extremely helpful.
I put this in my global code to work on all submit buttons:
Add the disable part in the submit event.
I faced the same problem. Customers could submit a form and then multiple e-mail addresses will receive a mail message. If the response of the page takes too long, sometimes the button was pushed twice or even more times..
I tried disable the button in the onsubmit handler, but the form wasn't submitted at all. Above solutions work probably fine, but for me it was a little bit too tricky, so I decided to try something else.
To the left side of the submit button, I placed a second button, which is not displayed and is disabled at start up:
In the onsubmit handler attached to the form, the 'real' submit is hidden and the 'fake' submit is shown with a message that the messages are being sent.
This worked for us. I hope it will help you.
Reading the comments, it seems that these solutions are not consistent across browsers. Decided then to think how I would have done this 10 years ago before the advent of jQuery and event function binding.
So here is my retro hipster solution:
The main point of difference is that I am relying on the ability to stop a form submitting through returning false on the submit handler, and I am using a global flag variable - which will make me go straight to hell!
But on the plus side, I cannot imagine any browser compatibility issues - hey, it would probably even work in Netscape!
As a number of people have pointed out, disabling the submit button has some negative side effects (at least in Chrome it prevents the name/value of the button pressed from being submitted). My solution was to simply add an attribute to indicate that submit has been requested, and then check for the presence of this attribute on every submit. Because I'm using the submit function, this is only called after all HTML 5 validation is successful. Here is my code:
Test with a setTimeout, that worked for me and I could submit my form, refers to this answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/779785/5510314