submit button

[artee]

I suppose this is an impossibillity, but is there anyway to stop the submit button from working once you've hit it? So many times I've seen a need to add to or change something just as I've hit it.

[netibiza]

it so annoying when you see a spelling mistake and you cannot change it.

[netibiza]

it so annoying when you see a spelling mistake and you cannot change it.

[In4themoney]

Fantastic idea artee that�s the bestess suggestion on ABK for a long time and that explains some of your posts come on AB ED help artee-:) lol a stop go button artee!!

[smudge]

This is why an 'Edit' button would come in handy!

Until then, I shall keep on doing this: *correction!

[littleoldme]

On another site forum I frequent, contributors are able to edit posts until such time as someone else responds. I think that's fair enough - if you could edit them after a reply, the person replying could end up looking rather silly, taking you to task for something that then disappears from your post.

The tricky thing about that is that the AB forum is in a "flat" style (replies are just added to a thread in chronological order) rather than a "hierarchical" style where each reply is attached as a follow-up to a particular post wtihin that thread, so you might be prevented from editing your post by someone replying to someone else's!

I still agree with smudge that an edit facility would be worthwhile though. Several times I've typed out something in response to a post that has annoyed me, only to come to my senses at the last moment, realise that posting would only make things worse, and hit the back button instead of submit. It would be nice to have the opportunity to withdraw a comment before response if I did post it in a fit of pique!

[smudge]

littleoldme - glad you agree!  An edit facility for answers - like the one you can use when posting questions, would be most advantagious! :o}

[jno]

artee, such a thing would be helpful not only on AB but in real life too. When you'd said or done something really dumb you could just hit the cancel button and life would return to where it was 60 seconds ago.

[artee]

Glad to hear your thoughts everyone, thanks a lot.
Make a movie jno....