Thank you Karl for the reply. The button is indeed of type="submit" and the form was working in IE prior to adding the above script.
I also changed the attribute value to true (removing the quotes). Sadly, I'm still getting the same results in IE. On Jan 26, 4:10 pm, Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com> wrote: > A couple things you might want to look at: > > 1. Does your button have type="submit" ? It will need to if you want > to submit with it in IE. > > 2. The disabled attribute value should be true, not "true". > > --Karl > > ____________ > Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com > > On Jan 26, 2009, at 4:55 PM, GBartels wrote: > > > > > I'm using JQuery 1.2.6 with the following script: > > > <script type="text/javascript"><!-- > > $(document).ready(function(){ $("button.submitButton").click(function > > () { > > $(this).attr("disabled","true").html("Processing, please wait..."); > > $("button").attr("disabled","true"); }) }); > > // --></script> > > > It works as expected in FF3 but is is slightly broken in > > IE7. On initial click, the submit button appears to take focus, on > > second > > click, the "Processing..." message appears and the button is disabled. > > The > > problem is that it the form is then never submitted. Any ideas on how > > I might "fix" this to work in IE7 as well? > > > Thanks!