Topic awaiting preservation: Disabling a button

Greets!

I'm trying to make a submit button disabled after clicking to avoid resubmitting a form.

<input type="submit" name="button" value="Check" onclick="this.value='Please wait'; button.disabled=true; return true;">

Is what I'm using. It does disable the button after clicking, but doesn't submit the form. What's up with that?

It doesn't seem like that should cause a problem. If the sole issue is that disabling the button before the onclick event is finished cancels the form submission, then you have two possibilities:

1. put the button disabling code in the form's onsubmit event (probably the best choice)
2. call this.form.submit() before disabling the button