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lock screen on submit

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:35 pm
by cardi777
Hi.

If I make a form that has a fair bit of data to submit, i find that the user has the ability to click other buttons while the information is being processed - thus screwing up things a little.

I have seen on some websites a full screen layer that pops up on submit with a loading animating gif in the middle.

does anyone have any snippets I can use for this? And is this best as a javascript thing, or a jquery thing?

Cheers,
Doug

Re: lock screen on submit

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 9:39 pm
by John Cartwright
The term you want to search for is "lightbox", but more specifically "jquery lightbox" :)

Re: lock screen on submit

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:31 am
by cardi777
hmm I have seen these. But i don't know how to appropriate these tools to be used like this

How do you suppose I use this kind of thing?

Re: lock screen on submit

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 2:21 am
by cardi777
your reply lead me onto here:http://malsup.com/jquery/block/#demos

Thanks for that.

cheers,
Doug

Re: lock screen on submit

Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:07 am
by John Cartwright
cardi777 wrote:your reply lead me onto here:http://malsup.com/jquery/block/#demos

Thanks for that.

cheers,
Doug
I haven't come across that plugin yet, looks like a good one!