disabling submit button

[Sarran Vidyakumar]

Hey:
i need to disable the submit button so it cannot be clicked multiple times.. i have managed to disable the button using javascript but dont see the required results coz the servlets that the html page calls does a check, sumthing like if(submitButton != null)..but in out case the button has been disabled and hence control doent go into the loop..any suggestion to fix it..Thanks

[Eric Pascarello]

easiest things is to disable the button after it was clicked...
e.g.
<input type="submit onclick="this.disabled=true;">
or you can try to hide it and see if that works....
this.display=none;
most people use a javascript code instead of the submit button
<input type="button" name="b" @#111;nclick="SubForm()">
then the script

<script>
allowSubmit=true;
function SubForm(){
  if(allowSubmit){
    allowSubmit=false;
    docuemtn.FormName.submit();
  }
}
</script>

see if that helps
Eric
[ March 11, 2004: Message edited by: Eric Pascarello ]

[Yuriy Fuksenko]

I would suggest to add something like
setTimeout("allowSubmit=true",5000)
into the if statement - in case user hits stop button