You can do it better with DHTML just hide the layer with the button for a
while using DIV and seTimeout().
AL
At 07.58 04/04/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Simon Christian wrote:
> >
> > You could approach the problem from the client side by using Javascript
> to only
> > allow the page to be submitted once. e.g. within the form tag call a
> method to
> > check if the form has already been submitted.
> >
> > <script language="javascript">
> > var sent = false;
> >
> > function checkOkToSend() {
> > if(sent) return false;
> > sent = true;
> > return true;
> > }
> > </script>
>
>I've used that approach and it works, with at least one potential drawback. If
>the user for some reason (perhaps he sees a mistake on the page) clicks
>the stop
>button, then tries to resubmit, the second submit is blocked by the
>javascript,
>but the user has no idea why subsequent submits do not work. So if you use
>this
>technique, your page must also warn the user to reload the page if they
>need to
>resubmit.
>
>K Mukhar
>
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