Disabling textfields while submitting ajax call

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Hi I have a form_remote_tag-form that submits the contents of a text- field to the server. I have added javascript calls that show a spinner and hide the submit button while the server is processing the request, and would like to disable the textfield too.

I managed to disable the textfield using the prototype call $ ('text_field_id').disabled = true; but when I do that the content of the text field doesn't get sent to the server! Is there a way to disable the text-field and still get the content sent to the server?

Best regards Sebastian

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Without looking up any documentation, isn't there a hook in the prototype function that is called immediately after submitting the form that you can use to disable the field after the contents are sent?

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The callbacks as listed are:

:loading: Called when the remote document is being loaded with data by the browser. :loaded: Called when the browser has finished loading the remote document. :interactive: Called when the user can interact with the remote document, even though it has not finished loading. :success: Called when the XMLHttpRequest is completed, and the HTTP status code is in the 2XX range. :failure: Called when the XMLHttpRequest is completed, and the HTTP status code is not in the 2XX range. :complete: Called when the XMLHttpRequest is complete (fires after success/failure if they are present).

Using :loading is working! Thanks for the help.

S