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How to disable button when clicked button to action window location and enable it again after window location finished [duplicate]

When I am clicking a submit button on my HTML form, the function related to the button is called and it does its work. After completing the work a mail notification is sent which is consuming too much time. After that a confirmation message is displayed on the same HTML page (without using Ajax; i.e., the page is refreshed).
I want to avoid letting the user click the submit button multiple times in confusion during the waiting period of sending mails. So I am thinking that I should disable the button after it is pressed once.
How can I do this?
Can you please suggest any other technique to achive this goal without disabling the button?

Simply:
<form action="file" method="post" onsubmit="this.submit_button.disabled = true;">
<input name="submit_button" type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>
You can achieve this without disabling the button by using a nonce, however it is a bit more complex. Essentially, when the user requests the page that has the form that will be submitted, assign a unique id to that user's request (store it somewhere on the server, and make sure it's submitted along with the form). When the form is then submitted, look up the unique id to make sure it's not in process or already processed, and then if it's OK to proceed, mark the unique id as "in process", process the form, and then mark it as processed. If when you do the initial check and the page is in process or already processed, you'll need to take the necessary action (redirect them to a confirmation page if it was successfully processed, or back to the form if it was not successfully processed).

How can I do this?
You can take a look at the javascript code in this page:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000096.html
<input type="Button" onClick="this.value='Submitting..';this.disabled=true;" value="Submit">
Can you please suggest any other technique to achive this goal without disabling the button?
Show a busy panel:
"... Your request is being processed please wait..."
(source: vodafone.co.uk)

If you disable a button right before submitting, then the parent form will not be submitted. You need to disable the button after submitting. Best way it to use JavaScript's setTimeout() function for this.
<input type="submit" id="foo" onclick="setTimeout('document.getElementById(\'' + this.id + '\').disabled=true;', 50);">
50ms is affordable enough to give the form the chance to get submitted.
To enhance the user experience more, you could of course append a message or a loading image dynamically during the same onclick event as already suggested by others.

Assuming you don't want to disable the button you could always pop up a modal on the page. This will block the user's interaction with the page. You could throw some kind of loading spinner in there with a message that the submit is in progress.

I don't understand why it is a problem, as you are doing a regular submit, the user should see a white page while you are processing in the back end.. But in case if you want to disable the button, here is the code, use it on the button
onclick="this.disabled=disabled"

You could have the button be disabled, but still seem active to the user. In the function that gets called after the button is hit the first time, have the first thing it does set a global variable like disableButton to true. When the user presses the button, have that go to a function called something like checkSubmitStatus. If disableButton = true, return false. if disableButton = false, trigger the submit function.
You have still disabled the button, but your users can press away unaware.

I'm not submitting anything, but Google Chrome 31 doesn't update the button look while calculating, so i came up with this workaround:
<style>
.btnMenu{width:70px; font-size:12px}
.btnMenu:disabled{background-color:grey}
</style>
<input type="button" class="btnMenu" value="Total" onmousedown="b=this; b.disabled=true; b.v=b.value; b.value='Calculating...'; setTimeout('updateTotals(); b.value=b.v; b.disabled=false', 100)"/>

Disable Button Call Server then Re-enable Button

I've seen many similar questions to mine, but have spent a few hours browsing and can't find the answer to my situation.
I have a Go based web-server. I have an HTML template page that lets me update the hardware clock and system clock on a 'nix system with the current browser time:
The update button is of type submit and calls the Go code which makes some system calls which take a few seconds, and I can't have this server code being called twice whilst it's still processing the first request.
So I want to disable the update button and then re-enable it once the server has responded.
I have jQuery, so I know I can have a function that is called via `onclick' and make these calls:
$("#updateButton").prop("disabled", true);
$("#updateButton").prop("disabled", false);
I have the form being submitted via the button (and not a jQuery call for instance - although I'm all ears) because I want the form to refresh when the server responds. So I have this:
<form action="/clock" method="POST">
...
</form>
This is so some values on the page get updated. Such as the status message at the top and the values in the various fields (updated to the values actually set).
The first problem I have is that if I call a JS function on the button click, and it disables the button as per above, then my server code doesn't get called! I have no idea why - could this be stopping the post request somehow?
<script>
function getTime() {
// Disable update button while waiting for response
$("#updateButton").prop("disabled", true); // Stops post request???
// How to re-enable update button?
}
</script>
And secondly, how do I re-enable the button? I don't know how to tell when the server has responded.

Since you're saying you want to disable the submit button once the button is clicked. And you're also saying you want the page to refresh while the form is being submitted.
<form action="" method="post" onsubmit="subBtn.disabled = true; return true;">
<input type="submit" name="subBtn" value="submit"/>
</form>
In the code above, when <form> is submitted, <input> field named subBtn is disabled and true is returned for <form> to continue the submission process. Once the page is reloaded, the button goes to its original state, which is enabled.
I am not sure whats going on the code down there or how/when is getTime() function executed, but return true; might just submit the form.
<script>
function getTime() {
$("#updateButton").prop("disabled", true);
return true; // this to continue with the original <form> process
}
</script>

Knowing Which Button Submitted a Form (PHP and Javascript)

I have a button that I'm using to submit a form (quiz). I also have another button to do this, but it gets built dynamically. Note the workflow of the code below.
Ultimately, I want PHP to know which button was pressed to submit the form. So, I included name="save_progress" in the <button> code below. However, including that automatically submits the form and bypasses the setTimeout() in my javascript. Removing it makes the setTimeout() function properly, but I don't get the save_progress data via $_POST.
Button...
<button class="btn btn-primary btn-block btn-lg" name="save_progress" onclick="save_progress(); return false;">Save Progress</button>
Javascript...
//For saving quiz progress
function save_progress(){
$('#save_progress_submit_container').modal('show');
setTimeout(function() {
submit_quiz();
}, 1000);
}
//Submitting a quiz
function submit_quiz(){
$("#answers").submit();
}
Any ideas that will work with this workflow? I've already reviewed this (How can I tell which button was clicked in a PHP form submit?) and it doesn't apply here, unfortunately.

Came up with a better solution overall. I created <input type="hidden" id="submit_type" name="submit_type" value=""> in the form, then simply updated the value using jQuery based on which button was clicked.
For future readers, #Niloct's link in the comments caused me to get a save_progress() is not a function error, but it did prevent the submission.

How to make a button clickabled when hovered over

This question is going to sound strange to many of you. I need a button where it can't be triggered by a click. That means it won't do an action. Like if the form attribute action is set to something like next.html the click won't cause it to go to the next page.
And when the user hovers over the button, it can go to the next site. The reason why I am doing this is because a bot can submit data without hovering over the button. I am hoping this will prevent bots from submitting anything into my site.
I don't really have any code, but is there any way to do this in Javascript/jQuery?
If this confusing please ask more questions in the comments and I will try to answer to the best of my capabilities.

Now I am not sure how effective this technique would be at blocking bots. If you still want to give it a go, I'd do something like this:
HTML:
<form class="form" action="1.php" type="post">
<input type="text">
<input class="submitbutton" type="submit">
</form>
Javascript/jQuery:
var $form = $('.form'),
$btn = $('.submitbutton');
// Disable submit button on page load
$btn.prop('disabled',true);
// Reactivate submit button on form hover
$form.hover(
function(e){
e.stopPropagation();
$btn.prop('disabled',false);
}, function(e){
e.stopPropagation();
$btn.prop('disabled',true);
}
);
I put together an example at JSFiddle.

Bots search for the <form> element
Bots query for the form's action value
Bots won't follow your form action if there's no form in your page. If that might sound strange:
Create your entire form using JS (No form? No bots.)
Either way (specially if you care about noJS visitors) you need to validate your form
on server side (that's what matter the most)
on client side (JavaScript; notify your users if they forgot to fill something - typos)
Here you can find an approach example
Why your hover approach/intent is bad:
You'll be only messing with UI creating a bad UX. Nothing more.
The form is already there on the page revealing all what a bot needs.
The bot does not need any button to submit your form.
Some users might use the TAB key to focus the SUBMIT button - so there's no hover involved whatsoever, just a poor form that does not work as it should.

In general, clicking the button should submit the form. If you want to force the issue, I think you should try to disable the button first.
<span style="padding: 8px; background: red;" onmouseout="this.firstChild.disabled='';"><input type="button" name="test" id="test" value="roll over me" onmouseover="this.disabled=true;"></span>
as provided in the answer here:
Javascript: enable/disable button with mouseover/mouseout

it seems your question is navigating to another page without clicking a button.
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<button onmouseover="go()" id="button">hii</button>
<script>
var anchor=document.createElement("a");
var button=document.getElementById("button");
anchor.href="alarm2.html";
function go()
{
button.onmouseover= anchor.click();
}
</script>
</body>
</html>

javascript createElement/append child -- new text dissapears after click

I have a javascript method that creates a bunch of elements on click. When I call it from a button, it only stays on the screen for the duration of that click. when I enter the exact same code into the console, however, it stays on the page until I reload or navigate away (which is exactly what I want).
JavaScript code: (it's the only method in the js file)
function post() {
var postTitle = document.createElement('h3');
var nodeTitle = document.createTextNode('Immigration is good.');
postTitle.appendChild(nodeTitle);
etc....
Where I'm calling it in the html:
<input type="submit" id="post-button" value="Post" onclick="post()">
The script tag is in the header of the html page.
How do I get it to stay on the page past the duration of the click? Any ideas why it's being immediately obliterated?

You still need to cancel the form's submission. A return false; from post, if it exists, won't work because the onclick attribute is calling post() but not returning anything.
You could change it to onclick="return post();", but it would be better to attach the handler directly, and to the submit event of the form and not the click event of the button (people do use Enter sometimes!):
document.getElementById('some-form').onclick = post;

Look at what the button does. It is posting!
When you click the button it is redirecting you back to the page you are currently on! It seems like it is showing up and disappearing what is actually happening though is that the page is refreshing.
There are a couple of options to do what you want. Submitting via Ajax or having your server respond with a hashbang/cookie set to direct the page to do as you wish.