disable all the elements in html

html, javascript

Solution

I suggest to do it the "Lightbox"-style way.

Add an absolute positioned, transparent, full screen div Layer above the Page. This way, the user can't even click on a Link.

To give the user a visual feedback that the page is disabled, you can make the div e. g. 50% transparent black.

BTW, here is also a jQuery Plugin that uses a similar technique.

Problem

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