[jQuery] Re: get form id from button click

2008-11-07 Thread Andy Matthews
After you've clicked the submit button for a form: Var myID = $(this).attr('id'); -Original Message- From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of lance123 Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 3:09 PM To: jQuery (English) Subject: [jQuery] get form id from button

[jQuery] Re: get form id from button click

2008-11-07 Thread lance123
Hi Andy, Thanks for that. I am a bit of a Jquery noob. Where do set the Var myID and how will it know it's the form? Here is my ajax function: $(document).ready(function() { // bind form using ajaxForm $('#'+myID).ajaxForm({ // target identifies the element(s) to update with

[jQuery] Re: get form id from button click

2008-11-07 Thread Klaus Hartl
And remember you don't have to use jQuery for everything where a this.id is sufficient. var myId = this.id; But that wasn't the question anyway, Lance needed the id of the form that contains the button, not the id of the button itself. The form's id would be: var formId = this.form.id;

[jQuery] Re: get form id from button click

2008-11-07 Thread lance123
HI Klause, Thanks for that :) where to I set this up. I have been able to do this sort of thing with standard js but not integrating it with jquery. I put this inline javascript in the button function that calls the ajax javascript:checkFormName(this.form.id); But can't get work out how to