Sent by Austin Govella on 22 February 2002 12:12
Gene LeFave wrote:
> The short question is:
>
> Is it possible using CSS to disable links on a page
> until the page is fully loaded?
>
>
> What I have is a rather long form with a lot of links
> and check boxes on it. If a user clicks on a link
> before the page is completely received information pre
> filled by the server is lost. This is particularly a
> problem with check boxes. There is no way a server
> can tell if a box is unchecked or not there.
>
> I'm already using javascript to actually disable the
> function, but even so, once clicked the page never
> completes. If there were a CSS way to disable all
> links on a page I think that would be an ideal
> solution.
Maybe you could set the display for everything to hidden. Then when an
element at the bottom of the page loads, have it change everything to
visible. If you put the object at the very bottom of the page, it should
be one of the last things to load.
Alternately, you could split the form into multiple pages so it doesn't
take so long to load. It sounds like this is an issue as much as
anything: impatient visitors clicking on things while they wait for the
form to finish loading.
