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title: "💭 </> htmx ~ The disable-element Extension"
description: "!https://v1.htmx.org/extensions/disable-element/"
date: 2023-09-02
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  - webdev
  - thought
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      <div class="embed-card-title">&lt;/&gt; htmx ~ The disable-element Extension</div>
      <div class="embed-card-description">htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML, using attributes, so you can build modern user interfaces with the simplicity and power of hypert...</div>
      <div class="embed-card-meta">v1.htmx.org</div>
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An extension to disable elements during flight of an htmx request, Looks super useful for things like a create or delete button where the server would end up with an error if you double delete or double create.  This eliminates an error path that the user might see under normal use of the ui.

!!! note

    This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">thought</a>. It's a short note that I make
    about someone else's content online <a href="/tags/thoughts/" class="hashtag-tag" data-tag="thoughts" data-count=2 data-reading-time=3 data-reading-time-text="3 minutes">#thoughts</a>