You could try changing this: alert($(html).find("#test").attr
('action'));
To This: alert($("#test").attr('action'));On Apr 13, 9:47 am, Nic Hubbard <nnhubb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Test page to show the problem:http://www.puc.edu/dev/tests/ajax-test > > On Apr 13, 9:33 am, Nic Hubbard <nnhubb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I am pulling my hair out over this. I swear that this is a bug. > > > For some reason, I CANNOT target any forms within the html response. > > I have tried very simple examples and it still won't work. Here is > > what I have, that still returns undefined: > > > HTML: > > <form id="test" action="http://test.com";> > > <span id="test2">this is my text</span> > > </form> > > > jQuery: > > success: function(html){ > > alert($(html).find("#test").attr('action')); > > alert($(html).find("#test2").text()); > > > } > > > #test2 works, but #test never does, and it seems this is because it is > > a form. Have I done something wrong here? Can I not target a form? > > > On Apr 12, 4:35 pm, Nic Hubbard <nnhubb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I have an ajax GET call that returns the HTML of a page on my server. > > > Within that page is a form with a specific ID. I know it is there, I > > > can see it in the response in Firebug, but when I try to get > > > attributes of that ID, it always returns undefined! What have I done > > > wrong here? > > > > success: function(html){ > > > > $(html).find('#main_form').each(function() { > > > var linking_data = $(this).serialize(); > > > var form_action = $(this).attr('action'); > > > alert(form_action); > > > > }); > > > } > > > > I have tried to not use each() and that still returns undefined. I > > > don't get it.
