Webform button disabling problems

[Srinivas]

Hi,

I have a webform with some dropdown menus, textboxes required and custom
validators. I added a click event handler for the button in which there is
code for processing. This processing takes around one minute.

I want to disable the button after the user clicks on it so that he cannot
click it again while the processing is going on. But when I do this using
javascript, the button is getting disabled while the form is not getting
submitted.

I used btnSubmit.Attributes.Add("onclick", "disablebutton();") to add onlick
event to the button.

When the page is rendered the button html looks like this

<input type="submit" name="btnSubmit" value="Submit"
onclick="disablebutton();if (typeof(Page_ClientValidate) == 'function')
Page_ClientValidate(); " language="javascript" id="btnProceed" />

The javascript for disablebutton() is

function disableButton(){
document.Form1.btnSubmit.value = "Processing..........";
document.Form1.btnSubmit.disabled = true;
}

I don't know where I am going wrong. Can anyone please suggest me how to get
this work.

Thanks

Srinivas

[James Culshaw]

Hi

why not change the buttton to be an asp:button rather than a standard input. That way you can use code-behind to handle the event. The clicking of the button should also fire of any webforms validators. You can then just set the command buttons enabled property to false as the last step in the event

The declaration of the button would be simlar to the following

<asp:Button id="cmdNewSection" runat="server" Text="New"></asp:Button

James :-)

[Srinivas]

Thanks James.

I am already implementing the button as asp:button. The html I posted was
the html as seen using the browsers view source.

Srinivas
"James Culshaw" <Ja****@dumgal.gov.uk> wrote in message
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Hi,

why not change the buttton to be an asp:button rather than a standard input. That way you can use code-behind to handle the event. The clicking of
the button should also fire of any webforms validators. You can then just
set the command buttons enabled property to false as the last step in the
event.
The declaration of the button would be simlar to the following:

<asp:Button id="cmdNewSection" runat="server" Text="New"></asp:Button>

James :-)