Disable submit button on click after form validation

Question

I have a form, which has a jquery form validation.. what i need is the submit button should get disabled when i submit the form once the validation is done..

<form action="#" method="post" id="myform" name="myform">
    Location: <input name="location" type="text" />
    Site: <input name="site" type="text" />
    Age: <input name="age" type="text" />
    Gender <input name="gender" type="text" />
    <input name="button" type="submit" class="myButton" id="button" value="Submit" />
</form>

here is my form JsFiddle

Answer 1

Not sure why you want to disable the submit button but using jQuery you could do

$('input[type="submit"]').prop('disabled',true);

Typically you either wouldnt have a submit button, or else submit the form and the page will reload!

UPDATE

To stop people from reposting the values by refreshing the page as you wrote in comments, redirect the user to the page without the values posted!

 header('/same_page.php');

Answer 2

you want to do the action on form.submit. Not sure if you need to add form.valid() there as a check, but I always do it like that. Afterwards you can return true or false.

• True: The browser proceeds with the link and action specified in the form
• False: The browser stops (when you have validation errors)

Here the code:

$('#myform').submit(function() {
    if (!$('#myform').valid()) return false;

    $('#myform input[type=submit]').attr("disabled", "disabled");
    return true;
});

I've also updated your fiddle with that code, so you can try it out

Answer 3

after you validate the form, use:

$( "#button" ).click(function(event) {
        if($('#myform').valid()) {
            $(event.target).attr("disabled", "disabled");
        }
    });

Answer 4

If you want to disable once the form which you want to validate is valid, then you can disable the submit button like this

$("#myForm").validate({
  submitHandler: function(form) {
    // do other stuff for a valid form
    $('#myform input[type=submit]').attr("disabled", "disabled");
    form.submit();
  }
});