Posted by Michael Winter on 04/12/06 17:12

On 12/04/2006 14:54, Karl Groves wrote:

> I am working on:
> http://www.webaccessstrategies.com/clients/mpc/renewalform.php
> Because of the size of the form, users have been getting a bit trigger-
> happy on the submit button.

I'm not surprised. It's enormous! The first thing I'd suggest is
breaking it down into sections, and allow the user to move between them.
With a form that large, it might also be beneficial to allow the user to
save it in a partial state then log back in to resume at a later date.

> I've found a method to disable the submit button, [...]

I suggest that you lose it again: it's not good for usability. Consider
what happens if the user has problems submitting and hits the back
button to try again. How do you propose they resubmit?

[snip]

> The problem is that now that I have the javascript in place to disable the
> button, $_REQUEST['submit'] is never getting set.

Disabled form controls are not successful; they don't become part of the
form data set.

Mike

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