deactivate submit button

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

hi, im wondering, how can u deactivate a sumbit button?or any form button?

[Charles]

<form action="some-script.pl" onsubmit="return check (this); return false">

If the function check() returns false the form does not submit.

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

does the button then appear grey in IE?

[PeOfEo]

You can also use disabled="true" for a button.

[Charles]

Originally posted by PeOfEo
You can also use disabled="true" for a button.

That's how you set something to diabled with JavaScript. With HTML it is different and with XHTML it is different again. But often it is a bad to have your button disabled by default. People without JavaScript will not be able to use it.

If you do want the button to default to disabled then you could use HTML:

<button disabled>Foo</button>

or in XHTML:

<button disabled="disabled">Foo</button>

See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interac...ml#edef-BUTTON .

[LiLcRaZyFuZzY]

thank u just what i needed..its just to block a form until i finished writing the processing file...

thx