Forum OpenACS Q&A: How do I add an "onclick" javascript event on a submit widget of an ad_form

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1: How do I add an "onclick" javascript event on a submit widget of an ad_form
Posted by Konstantinos Kokkorogiannis on 08/23/05 10:33 AM
Hallo,
I have a form generated by ad_form.
The form has a submit button (until now autogenerated by the ad_form).
I want to add the text onClick="Disab" in my button, (apparently to run a javascript to disable the button after the first click - to avoid an error which happens because of double clicks).

How do I add the text to the button in an ad_form?

Thanks,
Konstantinos

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2: Re: How do I add an "onclick" javascript event on a submit widget of an ad_form (response to 1)
Posted by Vinod Kurup on 08/24/05 10:11 PM
ad_form has a '-has_submit' flag that allows you to suppress the ad_form generated submit button and then you can supply your own. The confusing thing (to me) is that '-has_submit 1' means the submit button is not generated for you. In any case, here's a snippet that would do what you want: 
ad_form -name test -form {
    field1:text
    {my_submit_button:text(submit) {label "Click me"} {html {onClick "Disab"}}}
} -has_submit 1
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3: Re: How do I add an "onclick" javascript event on a submit widget of an ad_form (response to 1)
Posted by Konstantinos Kokkorogiannis on 08/25/05 12:31 PM
Thanks. That was it. It now works as I want it.