Topic: the submit button multiple clicking issue

Cheers fellow designers and coders!

In regards to the old issue of users only supposed to click a form sumbit button only once i have come across a solution that i found on a discussion board.
Whenever i posted a reply and clicked "add reply" once the button would go into its disabled state. "very cool" i thought as i would just like to implement this on a new php+mysql site to prevent accidental duplicates in the database.

i looked into the source - nothing, no onclick=die etc. just a reference to a css class.
i checked on the css class and again - nothing that refers to the state of the button.

any ideas how this can be done? i imageine something like onclick= state: disabled... ???

<´¯`·.¸ Patric ¸.·´¯`>

patric design: Hmmmm there are plenty of ways to fix this issue - it came up a while ago in the DHTML forum (and I'll probably move it there). I picked up this code at the time (I think it was from the Doc):

quote:

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<script language="javascript">
<!--
var submitcount = 0;

function submitOnce() {
if (submitcount == 0) {
submitcount++;
return true;
}
return false;
}
//-->
</script>

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kuckus' Colored Scrollbar utility does some nice work disabling various form elements so you might get some inspiration there:
http://development.gurusnetwork.com/utilities/colored_scrollbars/

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Thanks for the advertisement Emps

I think a simple

onclick="this.disabled='true';"

in the button's tag should work as well - at least in Mozilla and IE 6 (didn't try other ones yet).

Started FAQ:

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