Question

I am trying to implement some Jquery that basically says “If this text field is filled in then disable the submit button so that the form cannot be delivered/submitted”

So far I have come up with this, but it is not working

$(document).ready(function(){
$this = $("#inputValue");
 if($this.val().length>0){ 
$('input[type=submit]').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
 }  
});

When i fill in the form and include text within the field I am not supposed to the form still gets submitted, what am i doing wrong?

Thanks

Answer 1

Your code only runs once on runtime. After that, it doesn’t get checked again.

$(document).ready(function (){
  $("#inputValue").on('change', function (){
    if($(this).val().length > 0){
      $('input[type=submit]').attr('disabled', 'disabled');
    } else {
      $('input[type=submit]').removeAttr('disabled');
    }
  });
});

Or, as @thomasfedb suggested:

$(document).ready(function (){
  $('#inputValue').on('change', function() {
    $("input[type=submit]").prop('disabled', $(this).val().length > 0);
  });
});