Question

well right now I have this checkbox that’s enabling / disabling a submit button for my form.

I simply have this code for enabling / disabling it

onclick="if(this.checked){this.form.submit_btn.disabled=false}else{this.form.submit_btn.disabled=true};this.blur();"

now I’m just wondering how I can make it so that if they click the button when it’s disabled, have it alert them with a certain message.

so add an onclick event to the button and have it be like

if(this.disabled=true){alert('Button disabled!');}

or something similar? I’m pretty new to all the onclick stuff.

Thanks

Answer 1

Don’t know what it’s worth but in jQuery it would go like:

// Not tested!    
$(document).ready(function(){
  $('#myButton').click(function(){
     if($(this).is(':disabled')) { 
         alert('No need to click, it\'s disabled.');
     } 
  });
});

Don’t see the point though. Why bother someone with a message while the button is already disabled (and the browser is showing so).