form submit button to processing, please wait

I have a regular forum in regular html with the regular "submit" button

I want , after the user has press this button, for the text to change to something like "processing, please wait"

normally processing takes 1 second but sometimes can take 5/6 secs and I don't want people to abandon their purchase

any ideas ?

 

You can try this:

<input ... value="Submit" onClick="this.value = 'Wait!'">

J.D.

 

Try putting the Submit button within a DIV and replacing the DIV's innerHTML with "PLEASE WAIT" message.

<form action="target.asp" onsubmit="document.getElementById('submitdiv').innerHTML='Please Wait'">
other fields
<div id="submitdiv">
<input type="Submit" value="Submit" id="Submit" name="Submit"/>
</div>
</form>