jQuery disable/enable submit button

Question

I have this HTML:

<input type="text" name="textField" />
<input type="submit" value="send" />

How can I do something like this:

• When the text field is empty the submit should be disabled (disabled="disabled").
• When something is typed in the text field to remove the disabled attribute.
• If the text field becomes empty again(the text is deleted) the submit button should be disabled again.

I tried something like this:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('input[type="submit"]').attr('disabled','disabled');
    $('input[type="text"]').change(function(){
        if($(this).val != ''){
            $('input[type="submit"]').removeAttr('disabled');
        }
    });
});

…but it doesn't work. Any ideas?

Answer 1

The problem is that the change event fires only when focus is moved away from the input (e.g. someone clicks off the input or tabs out of it). Try using keyup instead:

$(document).ready(function() {
     $(':input[type="submit"]').prop('disabled', true);
     $('input[type="text"]').keyup(function() {
        if($(this).val() != '') {
           $(':input[type="submit"]').prop('disabled', false);
        }
     });
 });

Answer 2

$(function() {
  $(":text").keypress(check_submit).each(function() {
    check_submit();
  });
});

function check_submit() {
  if ($(this).val().length == 0) {
    $(":submit").attr("disabled", true);
  } else {
    $(":submit").removeAttr("disabled");
  }
}

Answer 3

This question is 2 years old but it's still a good question and it was the first Google result ... but all of the existing answers recommend setting and removing the HTML attribute (removeAttr("disabled")) "disabled", which is not the right approach. There is a lot of confusion regarding attribute vs. property.

HTML

The "disabled" in <input type="button" disabled> in the markup is called a boolean attribute by the W3C.

HTML vs. DOM

Quote:

A property is in the DOM; an attribute is in the HTML that is parsed into the DOM.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/7572855/664132

JQuery

Related:

Nevertheless, the most important concept to remember about the checked attribute is that it does not correspond to the checked property. The attribute actually corresponds to the defaultChecked property and should be used only to set the initial value of the checkbox. The checked attribute value does not change with the state of the checkbox, while the checked property does. Therefore, the cross-browser-compatible way to determine if a checkbox is checked is to use the property...

Relevant:

Properties generally affect the dynamic state of a DOM element without changing the serialized HTML attribute. Examples include the value property of input elements, the disabled property of inputs and buttons, or the checked property of a checkbox. The .prop() method should be used to set disabled and checked instead of the .attr() method.

$( "input" ).prop( "disabled", false );

Summary

To [...] change DOM properties such as the [...] disabled state of form elements, use the .prop() method.

(http://api.jquery.com/attr/)

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As for the disable on change part of the question: There is an event called "input", but browser support is limited and it's not a jQuery event, so jQuery won't make it work. The change event works reliably, but is fired when the element loses focus. So one might combine the two (some people also listen for keyup and paste).

Here's an untested piece of code to show what I mean:

$(document).ready(function() {
    var $submit = $('input[type="submit"]');
    $submit.prop('disabled', true);
    $('input[type="text"]').on('input change', function() { //'input change keyup paste'
        $submit.prop('disabled', !$(this).val().length);
    });
});

Answer 4

To remove disabled attribute use,

 $("#elementID").removeAttr('disabled');

and to add disabled attribute use,

$("#elementID").prop("disabled", true);

Enjoy :)

Answer 5

or for us that dont like to use jQ for every little thing:

document.getElementById("submitButtonId").disabled = true;

Answer 6

eric, your code did not seem to work for me when the user enters text then deletes all the text. i created another version if anyone experienced the same problem. here ya go folks:

$('input[type="submit"]').attr('disabled','disabled');
$('input[type="text"]').keyup(function(){
    if($('input[type="text"]').val() == ""){
        $('input[type="submit"]').attr('disabled','disabled');
    }
    else{
        $('input[type="submit"]').removeAttr('disabled');
    }
})

Answer 7

It will work like this:

$('input[type="email"]').keyup(function() {
    if ($(this).val() != '') {
        $(':button[type="submit"]').prop('disabled', false);
    } else {
        $(':button[type="submit"]').prop('disabled', true);
    }
});

Make sure there is an 'disabled' attribute in your HTML

Answer 8

you can also use something like this :

$(document).ready(function() {
    $('input[type="submit"]').attr('disabled', true);
    $('input[type="text"]').on('keyup',function() {
        if($(this).val() != '') {
            $('input[type="submit"]').attr('disabled' , false);
        }else{
            $('input[type="submit"]').attr('disabled' , true);
        }
    });
});

here is Live example

Answer 9

Here's the solution for file input field.

To disable a submit button for file field when a file is not chosen, then enable after the user chooses a file to upload:

$(document).ready(function(){
    $("#submitButtonId").attr("disabled", "disabled");
    $("#fileFieldId").change(function(){
        $("#submitButtonId").removeAttr("disabled");
    });
});

Html:

<%= form_tag your_method_path, :multipart => true do %><%= file_field_tag :file, :accept => "text/csv", :id => "fileFieldId" %><%= submit_tag "Upload", :id => "submitButtonId" %><% end %>

Answer 10

For form login:

<form method="post" action="/login">
    <input type="text" id="email" name="email" size="35" maxlength="40" placeholder="Email" />
    <input type="password" id="password" name="password" size="15" maxlength="20" placeholder="Password"/>
    <input type="submit" id="send" value="Send">
</form>

Javascript:

$(document).ready(function() {    
    $('#send').prop('disabled', true);

    $('#email, #password').keyup(function(){

        if ($('#password').val() != '' && $('#email').val() != '')
        {
            $('#send').prop('disabled', false);
        }
        else
        {
            $('#send').prop('disabled', true);
        }
    });
});

Answer 11

If the button is itself a jQuery styled button (with .button()) you will need to refresh the state of the button so that the correct classes are added / removed once you have removed/added the disabled attribute.

$( ".selector" ).button( "refresh" );

Answer 12

The answers above don't address also checking for menu based cut/paste events. Below's the code that I use to do both. Note the action actually happens with a timeout because the cut and past events actually fire before the change happened, so timeout gives a little time for that to happen.

$( ".your-input-item" ).bind('keyup cut paste',function() {
    var ctl = $(this);
    setTimeout(function() {
        $('.your-submit-button').prop( 'disabled', $(ctl).val() == '');
    }, 100);
});

Answer 13

Vanilla JS Solution. It works for a whole form not only one input.

In question selected JavaScript tag.

HTML Form:

var form = document.querySelector('form')
    var inputs = form.querySelectorAll('input')
    var required_inputs = form.querySelectorAll('input[required]')
    var register = document.querySelector('input[type="submit"]')
    form.addEventListener('keyup', function(e) {
        var disabled = false
        inputs.forEach(function(input, index) {
            if (input.value === '' || !input.value.replace(/\s/g, '').length) {
                disabled = true
            }
        })
        if (disabled) {
            register.setAttribute('disabled', 'disabled')
        } else {
            register.removeAttribute('disabled')
        }
    })

<form action="/signup">
        <div>
            <label for="username">User Name</label>
            <input type="text" name="username" required/>
        </div>
        <div>
            <label for="password">Password</label>
            <input type="password" name="password" />
        </div>
        <div>
            <label for="r_password">Retype Password</label>
            <input type="password" name="r_password" />
        </div>
        <div>
            <label for="email">Email</label>
            <input type="text" name="email" />
        </div>
        <input type="submit" value="Signup" disabled="disabled" />
    </form>

Some explanation:

In this code we add keyup event on html form and on every keypress check all input fields. If at least one input field we have are empty or contains only space characters then we assign the true value to disabled variable and disable submit button.

If you need to disable submit button until all required input fields are filled in - replace:

inputs.forEach(function(input, index) {

with:

required_inputs.forEach(function(input, index) {

where required_inputs is already declared array containing only required input fields.

Answer 14

We can simply have if & else .if suppose your input is empty we can have

if($(#name).val() != '') {
   $('input[type="submit"]').attr('disabled' , false);
}

else we can change false into true

Answer 15

Disable: $('input[type="submit"]').prop('disabled', true);

Enable: $('input[type="submit"]').removeAttr('disabled');

The above enable code is more accurate than:

$('input[type="submit"]').removeAttr('disabled');

You can use both methods.

Answer 16

I had to work a bit to make this fit my use case.

I have a form where all fields must have a value before submitting.

Here's what I did:

  $(document).ready(function() {
       $('#form_id button[type="submit"]').prop('disabled', true);

       $('#form_id input, #form_id select').keyup(function() {
          var disable = false;

          $('#form_id input, #form_id select').each(function() {
            if($(this).val() == '') { disable = true };
          });

          $('#form_id button[type="submit"]').prop('disabled', disable);
       });
  });

Thanks to everyone for their answers here.

Answer 17

Please see the below code to enable or disable Submit button

If Name and City fields has value then only Submit button will be enabled.

<script>
  $(document).ready(function() {
    $(':input[type="submit"]').prop('disabled', true);

    $('#Name').keyup(function() {
      ToggleButton();
    });
    $('#City').keyup(function() {
      ToggleButton();
    });

  });

function ToggleButton() {
  if (($('#Name').val() != '') && ($('#City').val() != '')) {
    $(':input[type="submit"]').prop('disabled', false);
    return true;
  } else {
    $(':input[type="submit"]').prop('disabled', true);
    return false;
  }
} </script>

<form method="post">

  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-md-4">
      <h2>Getting started</h2>
      <fieldset>
        <label class="control-label text-danger">Name</label>
        <input type="text" id="Name" name="Name" class="form-control" />
        <label class="control-label">Address</label>
        <input type="text" id="Address" name="Address" class="form-control" />
        <label class="control-label text-danger">City</label>
        <input type="text" id="City" name="City" class="form-control" />
        <label class="control-label">Pin</label>
        <input type="text" id="Pin" name="Pin" class="form-control" />
        <input type="submit" value="send" class="btn btn-success" />
      </fieldset>
    </div>
  </div>
</form>

Answer 18

take look at this snippet from my project

 $("input[type="submit"]", "#letter-form").on("click",
        function(e) {
             e.preventDefault();


$.post($("#letter-form").attr('action'), $("#letter-form").serialize(),
                 function(response) {// your response from form submit
                    if (response.result === 'Redirect') {
                        window.location = response.url;
                    } else {
                        Message(response.saveChangesResult, response.operation, response.data);
                    }
});
$(this).attr('disabled', 'disabled'); //this is what you want

so just disabled the button after your operation executed

$(this).attr('disabled', 'disabled');

Answer 19

Al types of solution are supplied. So I want to try for a different solution. Simply it will be more easy if you add a id attribute in your input fields.

<input type="text" name="textField" id="textField"/>
<input type="submit" value="send" id="submitYesNo"/>

Now here is your jQuery

$("#textField").change(function(){
  if($("#textField").val()=="")
    $("#submitYesNo").prop('disabled', true)
  else
    $("#submitYesNo").prop('disabled', false)
});

Answer 20

Try

let check = inp=> inp.nextElementSibling.disabled = !inp.value;

<input type="text" name="textField" oninput="check(this)"/>
<input type="submit" value="send" disabled />

Answer 21

I Hope below code will help someone ..!!! :)

jQuery(document).ready(function(){

    jQuery("input[type=submit]").prop('disabled', true);

    jQuery("input[name=textField]").focusin(function(){
        jQuery("input[type=submit]").prop('disabled', false);
    });

    jQuery("input[name=textField]").focusout(function(){
        var checkvalue = jQuery(this).val();
        if(checkvalue!=""){
            jQuery("input[type=submit]").prop('disabled', false);
        }
        else{
            jQuery("input[type=submit]").prop('disabled', true);
        }
    });

}); /*DOC END*/