Re: form submit limit

can't recall if you ever got a response, but this idea just came to me. 
forgive any typos or bugs, im writing this off the top of my head.

first of all, use a standard button rather than a submit. then have its 
onClick event handler invoke the form submition. immediatly afterward, null 
out the event handler all together and it kills the button:

<input type="button" value="submit"
  onClick="this.form.submit();this.onclick = null;">

try that. the submit function should work just fine because your submitting 
to a perl script rather than using the mailto: action (then it gets tricky). 
the only problem is if they wish to hit STOP because they made a mistake, 
they have to reload to reactivate the button. good luck - Cyanide_7

>
>Hello all,
>
>I am trying to figure out a way to limit how many times a forms submit
>button can be hit.
>
>I am submitting the form data to a perl script and seek only to prevent the
>data from being e-mailed more than once by the script.  I don't want the
>user to even notice.  If they hit the submit button a second time I just
>want it to do nothing.  Get or post method, I need a solution for both.
>
>Is there a SIMPLE way to do this in HTML alone or if not, a perl or even
>javascript solution?
>
>TIA.
>
>Dale Nicholson

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