Hello - This is done not for a technical reason but due to the fact that submit buttons are only sent to the server if they're clicked by the user. I highly recommend the form plugin for handling this case as it'll bind a click handler and watch to see which submit button is clicked and serialize it appropriately.
I have updated the wiki page to note this: http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/serialize --John On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 3:00 PM, batfastad <batfas...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi everyone > > I've been testing some old sites to start using some jQuery .post > goodness and I came across an oddity > I decided to serialize() my form data so I don't have to specify the > exact data I want posted on loads of different pages. > > However I notice the value of any submit buttons isn't serialized. > Took me many hours to figure that out today. > I have a few scripts which branch based on which submit buttons are > pressed - it's perfectly acceptable to have more than one and even > with different name attributes. > > I'm guessing it's probably a technical reason as to why submit buttons > aren't serialized as it's quite different from the behaviour of > regular non-JS HTML forms. > > Is this on any lists of planned changes for the dev gurus? > Is it worth me filing something in the bugs system? > > One suggestion though... it's probably worth mentioning this on the > wiki page for the serialize function as it's definitely not obvious > that's what happens. > I will create an account and do this if anyone agrees... anything to > prevent others from wasting their time! > > Cheers, B > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jQuery Development" group. > To post to this group, send email to jquery-...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en.
