Yes, I was hoping to do this unobtrusively, keeping all my behaviour
in a separate js file to keep the XHTML clean. Sorry, I should have
mentioned that's what I was aiming for in my original post.
Any other ideas?
On Feb 16, 7:17 pm, Michael Lawson <mjlaw...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Is there a reason you can just use the onsubmit event?
>
> <form id="blah" action="blah" onsubmit="canSubmit(this)">
>
> something like that
>
> cheers
>
> Michael Lawson
> Content Tools Developer, Global Solutions, ibm.com
> Phone: 1-919-517-1568 Tieline: 255-1568
> E-mail: mjlaw...@us.ibm.com
>
> 'Examine my teachings critically, as a gold assayer would test gold. If you
> find they make sense, conform to your experience, and don't harm yourself
> or others, only then should you accept them.'
>
> From: stretch <clive.wick...@gmail.com>
>
>
> To: "jQuery (English)" <jquery-en@googlegroups.com>
>
>
> Date: 02/16/2009 02:15 PM
>
>
> Subject: [jQuery] Pass form as argument into its submit event
>
>
> What I'm trying to do should be very simple. I would like to assign a
> submit handler to a form and pass that form into the handler (I then
> wish to interrogate the id of the form argument and perform
> appropriate validation according to which form it is). The following
> code doesn't achieve the desired result. Inside the canSubmit
> function, according to firebug, the form argument seems to be of type
> form#[object HTMLInputElement] and form.id is undefined.
>
> // in domready event handler
> $('form').submit(function() { return canSubmit(this); });
> ...
> function canSubmit(form) {
> switch(form.id) {
> case "enhancementForm":
> ...
> case "newitemForm":
> ...
> }
> return true;
>
> }
>
> Any pointers would be much appreciated.
>
> Clive
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