# After buttonclick disable or not?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/after-buttonclick-disable-or-not/12449>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 31, 2003, 11:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/after-buttonclick-disable-or-not/12449 "2003-01-31T11:14:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![ericinho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9dc877/32.png) [@ericinho](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ericinho)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 11:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/after-buttonclick-disable-or-not/12449/1 "2003-01-31T11:14:15Z")

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Having a discussion here and am interested in your opinion.

when you press a menu option, what is the most logic thing/userfriendly?

- disable the button after being clicked, so the already selected sectionbutton cannot be clicked again (and thus the content cannot be reloaded when it is already visable)

- or keep the button after selecting it clickable (as you also see often), so people can ‘reload’ the section they are already viewing.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/after-buttonclick-disable-or-not/12449/2 "2003-01-31T14:53:49Z")

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hey ericinho , been a while , how are ya, lol

Well i ve been trying to use the disable the button code because i find it better to show the user what area they are in, so i would go with the disabling of the button. 😉

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2003, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/after-buttonclick-disable-or-not/12449/3 "2003-02-02T17:18:33Z")

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Hello,

Purely personal preference, I think. 🙂 My opinion would be to disable the button, but to keep it visible in another state (such as a different color or such) so that its appearance is a visual location cue.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2003, 9:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/after-buttonclick-disable-or-not/12449/4 "2003-02-03T09:12:15Z")

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at the moment I am leaning to giving it an clicked state, disable rollOver effect, but leaving it clickable.