[Javascript] Ugh... help! Must thwart multiclickers

[javascript@xxxxxxxxxx (Trey H)]

You may want to try putting this code in the button:
onClick="this.disabled=true"

This should disable the button after being clicked.  I am not sure if this 
works on image buttons though.

>From: "Joshua Turcotte" <kaji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: javascript@xxxxxxxxxx
>To: javascript@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [Javascript] Ugh... help!  Must thwart multiclickers
>Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:37:19 -0400
>
>One of the things I had always liked about layers was their ability to mask 
>out links on lower layers... and javascript being the best way to control 
>the visiblity of said layers and all...
>
>regardless, my problem is this... on a particular page, I have a graphic 
>submit button and when clicked, on occasion, it takes a few seconds for the 
>the page to switch, and we're getting a lot of truly idiotic users who 
>click that button 10,
>sometimes 17 times I've seen one and are flooding the system with nearly 
>identical records...
>
>I've since been trying to do one of two things... either erect a blank or 
>'processing...' layers directly over the submit button so as to mask out 
>the possibility of multiclinking... or have that button and form in a layer 
>which goes hidden after
>the click... but for the life of me, I can't get this to cooperate at 
>all... it seems to go on trying to process the form and completely igores 
>the fact that there is an onclick feature...
>
>notions?
>
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