Have you tried disabling the submit button after form starts processing ?
hope this helps
Simon Christie
"David Bradbury" <davidbradbury@etoast.com> wrote in message
news:49f104d4.0310220225.206091b1@posting.google.c om...[color=blue]
> Hi
>
> On my form, as soon as the user clicks my submit button a message pops
> up saying "Form processing" as the form submits. This is fine as long
> as the user only clicks the submit button once. However, if I try and
> stop the user submitting a second time (if they click the button for a
> second time despite the form processing message) by using a submission
> counter then my form just hangs forever with the "Form processing"
> message. Any ideas? Here's the javascript
:
>
> <script language="JavaScript">
> <!--
> var submitcount = 0
>
>
> function checkMe(){
> if (submitcount ==0){
> with(document.forms.worldcup){
> if(name.value == ""){
> alert("You must enter your name")
> return;
> }
>
> if(company.value == ""){
> alert("You must enter your company");
> return;
> }
>
>
> if(email.value.indexOf("@") == -1){
> alert("You must enter a valid e-mail address")
> return;
> }
>
>
>
>
> submitcount++
> document.all.pleasewaitScreen.style.display="block ";
> document.forms.worldcup.submit();
>
>
>
> }}
>
> }
> //-->
> </script>
>
> The document.all.pleasewaitscreen is a div tag as follows:
>
> <DIV ID="pleasewaitScreen" STYLE="position:absolute;z-index:5;
> top:50%; display:none; width:100%;">
> <TABLE ALIGN="CENTER" BGCOLOR="#000000" BORDER="1"
> BORDERCOLOR="#000000" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" HEIGHT="50"
> WIDTH="150" ID="Table1">
> <TR>
> <TD WIDTH="100%" HEIGHT="100%" BGCOLOR="silver" ALIGN="CENTER"
> VALIGN="MIDDLE">
> <FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="4" COLOR="blue"><B>Processing<br>
> Please Wait</B></FONT>
> </TD>
> </TR>
> </TABLE>
> </DIV>
>
>
> And finally, the user submits when they click on an image of a
> football:
>
> <p> <a href="javascript
:checkMe();"><img
> src="images/footballsubmit.jpg" border="0"></a>[/color]
