Prevent double submission of forms in jQuery

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I have a form that takes a little while for the server to process  I need to ensure that the user waits and does not attempt to resubmit the form by clicking the button again  I tried using the following jQuery code    lt script type  text javascript  gt    document  ready function            form my form   submit function                input   attr  disabled    disabled               a   attr  disabled    disabled            return true               lt  script gt    When I try this in Firefox everything gets disabled but the form is not submitted with any of the POST data it is supposed to include  I can t use jQuery to submit the form because I need the button to be submitted with the form as there are multiple submit buttons and I determine which was used by which one s value is included in the POST  I need the form to be submitted as it usually is and I need to disable everything right after that happens   Thanks

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Nathan s code but for jQuery Validate plugin  If you happen to use jQuery Validate plugin  they already have submit handler implemented  and in that case there is no reason to implement more than one  The code   jQuery validator setDefaults     submitHandler  function form          Prevent double submit     if   form  data  submitted     true            Previously submitted - don t submit again       return false        else            Mark form as  submitted  so that the next submit can be ignored         form  data  submitted   true         return true                  You can easily expand it within the   else  -block to disable inputs and or submit button   Cheers

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There is a possibility to improve Nathan Long s approach  You can replace the logic for detection of already submitted form with this one   var lastTime     this  data  lastSubmitTime    if  lastTime  amp  amp  typeof lastTime      object         var now   new Date        if   now - lastTime   gt  2000     2000ms         return true      else         return false      this  data  lastSubmitTime   new Date     return true     or do an ajax call or smth else

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this code will display loading on the button label  and set button to  disable state  then after processing  re-enable and return back the original button text      function               btn-Loading   each function  idx  elm              elm  click function                    do processing             if      input-validation-error   length  gt  0                  return                this  attr  label     this  text    text  loading                       this  delay 1000  animate   disabled  true    1000  function                        original event call                   when   elm  delay 1000  one  click    done function                            this  animate   disabled  false    1000  function                                this  text   this  attr  label                                                                  processing finalized                                            and fire it after definition

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Modified Nathan s solution a little for Bootstrap 3  This will set a loading text to the submit button  In addition it will timeout after 30 seconds and allow the form to be resubmitted   jQuery fn preventDoubleSubmission   function          input type  submit     data  loading-text    Loading            this  on  submit  function e       var  form     this           input type  submit      form  button  loading         if   form data  submitted       true             Previously submitted - don t submit again       e preventDefault          else            Mark it so that the next submit can be ignored        form data  submitted   true          form setFormTimeout                      Keep chainability   return this      jQuery fn setFormTimeout   function       var  form     this     setTimeout function            input type  submit      form  button  reset        alert  Form failed to submit within 30 seconds         30000

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You can stop the second submit by this     form   submit function                submit more than once return false           this  submit function                 return false                         submit once return true         return true     or do what you want to do

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event timeStamp doesn t work in Firefox  Returning false is non-standard  you should call event preventDefault    And while we re at it  always use braces with a control construct    To sum up all of the previous answers  here is a plugin that does the job and works cross-browser    jQuery fn preventDoubleSubmission   function          var last clicked  time since clicked       jQuery this  bind  submit   function event             if last clicked                time since clicked   jQuery now   - last clicked                     last clicked   jQuery now             if time since clicked  lt  2000                   Blocking form submit because it was too soon after the last submit              event preventDefault                       return true               To address Kern3l  the timing method works for me simply because we re trying to stop a double-click of the submit button  If you have a very long response time to a submission  I recommend replacing the submit button or form with a spinner   Completely blocking subsequent submissions of the form  as most of the above examples do  has one bad side-effect  if there is a network failure and they want to try to resubmit  they would be unable to do so and would lose the changes they made  This would definitely make an angry user

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In my case the form s onsubmit had some validation code  so I increment Nathan Long answer including an onsubmit checkpoint     fn preventDoubleSubmission   function             this  on  submit  function e           var  form     this             if the form has something in onsubmit         var submitCode    form attr  onsubmit            if submitCode    undefined  amp  amp  submitCode                     var submitFunction   new Function  submitCode               if  submitFunction                     event preventDefault                    return false                                                      if   form data  submitted       true                  Previously submitted - don t submit again                e preventDefault              else               Mark it so that the next submit can be ignored              form data  submitted   true                                Keep chainability         return this

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Use simple counter on submit       var submitCounter   0      function monitor             submitCounter            if  submitCounter  lt  2                console log  Submitted  Attempt      submitCounter               return true                    console log  Not Submitted  Attempt      submitCounter           return false          And call monitor   function on submit the form        lt form action   someAction go  onsubmit  return monitor     method  POST  gt                        lt input type  submit  value  Save Data  gt       lt  form gt

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I think Nathan Long s answer is the way to go  For me  I am using client-side validation  so I just added a condition that the form be valid   EDIT  If this is not added  the user will never be able to submit the form if the client-side validation encounters an error              jQuery plugin to prevent double submission of forms         jQuery fn preventDoubleSubmission   function                    this  on  submit   function  e                    var  form     this                    if   form data  submitted       true                           Previously submitted - don t submit again                     alert  Form already submitted  Please wait                         e preventDefault                      else                          Mark it so that the next submit can be ignored                        ADDED requirement that form be valid                     if  form valid                               form data  submitted   true                                                                           Keep chainability             return this

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but the form is not submitted with   any of the POST data it is supposed to   include    Correct  Disabled form element names values will not be sent to the server  You should set them as readonly elements   Also  anchors cannot be disabled like that  You will need to either remove their HREFs  not recommended  or prevent their default behaviour  better way   e g     lt script type  text javascript  gt    document  ready function           form my form   submit function             input   attr  readonly   true            input type submit    attr  disabled    disabled             a   unbind  click   click function e              e preventDefault                 or return false                     lt  script gt

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I solved a very similar issue using       my form   submit function           input type submit    click function event           event preventDefault

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Timing approach is wrong - how do you know how long the action will take on client s browser   How to do it     form   submit function        this  find   submit   attr  disabled   disabled          When form is submitted it will disable all submit buttons inside   Remember  in Firefox when you disable a button this state will be remembered when you go back in history  To prevent that you have to enable buttons on page load  for example

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If using AJAX to post a form  set async  false should prevent additional submits before the form clears       form   submit function        var one       one   val        var two       two   val          ajax         type   POST         async  false       lt ------ Will complete submit before allowing further action       url   process php         data   one   one   amp two   two   amp add true         success  function result           console log result              do something with result                error  function   alert  Error                 return false

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Use two submit buttons    lt input id  sub  name  sub  type  submit  value  OK  Save  gt   lt input id  sub2  name  sub2  type  submit  value  Hidden Submit  style  display none  gt    And jQuery       sub   click function        this  val  Please wait          this  attr  disabled   disabled          sub2   click

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I ended up using ideas from this post to come up with a solution that is pretty similar to AtZako s version    jQuery fn preventDoubleSubmission   function          var last clicked  time since clicked         this  bind  submit   function event        if last clicked         time since clicked   event timeStamp - last clicked       last clicked   event timeStamp       if time since clicked  lt  2000        return false       return true                Using like this        my-form   preventDoubleSubmission      I found that the solutions that didn t include some kind of timeout but just disabled submission or disabled form elements caused problems because once the lock-out is triggered you can t submit again until you refresh the page   That causes some problems for me when doing ajax stuff   This can probably be prettied up a bit as its not that fancy

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Update in 2018  I just got some points for this old answer  and just wanted to add that the best solution would be to make the operation idempotent so that duplicate submissions are harmless  Eg  if the form creates an order  put a unique ID in the form  The first time the server sees an order creation request with that id  it should create it and respond  quot success quot   Subsequent submissions should also respond  quot success quot   in case the client didn t get the first response  but shouldn t change anything  Duplicates should be detected via a uniqueness check in the database to prevent race conditions   I think that your problem is this line     input   attr  disabled   disabled     You re disabling ALL the inputs  including  I d guess  the ones whose data the form is supposed to submit  To disable just the submit button s   you could do this     button type submit   input type submit    prop  disabled  true    However  I don t think IE will submit the form if even those buttons are disabled  I d suggest a different approach  A jQuery plugin to solve it We just solved this problem with the following code  The trick here is using jQuery s data   to mark the form as already submitted or not  That way  we don t have to mess with the submit buttons  which freaks IE out     jQuery plugin to prevent double submission of forms jQuery fn preventDoubleSubmission   function         this  on  submit  function e       var  form     this        if   form data  submitted       true             Previously submitted - don t submit again       e preventDefault          else            Mark it so that the next submit can be ignored        form data  submitted   true                     Keep chainability   return this      Use it like this     form   preventDoubleSubmission     If there are AJAX forms that should be allowed to submit multiple times per page load  you can give them a class indicating that  then exclude them from your selector like this     form not  js-allow-double-submission    preventDoubleSubmission

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Why not just this -- this will submit the form but also disable the submitting button          myForm   on  submit   function e           var clickedSubmit     this  find  input type submit  focus             clickedSubmit  prop  disabled   true            Also  if you re using jQuery Validate  you can put these two lines under if      myForm   valid

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Please  check out jquery-safeform plugin    Usage example       safeform   safeform       timeout  5000      disable next submission for 5 sec     submit  function                You can put validation and ajax stuff here                When done no need to wait for timeout  re-enable the form ASAP           this  safeform  complete            return false

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I ve been having similar issues and my solution s  are as follows   If you don t have any client side validation then you can simply use the jquery one   method as documented here   http   api jquery com one    This disables the handler after its been invoked       mysavebuttonid   on  click   function           form   submit          If you re doing client side validation as I was doing then its slightly more tricky  The above example would not let you submit again after failed validation  Try this approach instead      mysavebuttonid   on  click   function  event         form   submit      if  boolFormPassedClientSideValidation              form has passed client side validation and is going to be saved           now disable this button from future presses           this  off event

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Change submit button    lt input id  submitButtonId  type  submit  value  Delete    gt    With normal button    lt input id  submitButtonId  type  button  value  Delete    gt    Then use click function       submitButtonId   click function                  submitButtonId   prop  disabled   true               myForm   submit              And remember re-enable button when is necesary       submitButtonId   prop  disabled   false

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I can t believe the good old fashioned css trick of pointer-events  none hasn t been mentioned yet  I had the same issue by adding a disabled attribute but this doesn t post back  Try the below and replace  SubmitButton with the ID of your submit button     document  on  click     SubmitButton   function            this  css  pointer-events    none

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My solution      jQuery plugin to prevent double submission of forms   fn preventDoubleSubmission   function          var  form     this         form find   type  submit     click function                this  prop  disabled   true            form submit                    Keep chainability     return this

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