Disable submit button ONLY after submit

Question

I have the following HTML and jquery:

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Answer 1

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:

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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.

function checkinput // submit handler
{
    ..
    ...
    $("#btnverzenden").hide(); <= real submit button will be hidden
    $("#btnverzenden2").show(); <= fake submit button gets visible
    ...
    ..
}

This worked for us. I hope it will help you.