How to get clicked submit button when submitting a form via JQuery
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Solution 1
$('input[type="submit"]').on('click', function(){
$('.myForm').data('button', this.name);
});
$(".myForm").on('submit', function(){
var submitButton = $(this).data('button') || $('input[type="submit"]').get(0).name;
});
Solution 2
There is now a standard submitter
property in the submit event.
Already implemented in firefox!
document.addEventListener('submit',function(e){
console.log(e.submitter)
})
in jQuery you just write
$(".myForm").on('submit', function(e){
e.originalEvent.submitter
});
for browsers not supporting it use this polyfill:
!function(){
var lastBtn = null
document.addEventListener('click',function(e){
if (!e.target.closest) return;
lastBtn = e.target.closest('button, input[type=submit]');
}, true);
document.addEventListener('submit',function(e){
if (e.submitter) return;
var canditates = [document.activeElement, lastBtn];
for (var i=0; i < canditates.length; i++) {
var candidate = canditates[i];
if (!candidate) continue;
if (!candidate.form) continue;
if (!candidate.matches('button, input[type=button], input[type=image]')) continue;
e.submitter = candidate;
return;
}
e.submitter = e.target.querySelector('button, input[type=button], input[type=image]')
}, true);
}();
Solution 3
Try this:
$(".myForm").submit(function(){
var submitButton = $(":focus", this);
});
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Updated on June 09, 2022Comments
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Ali Bassam almost 2 years
I have a form with 2 submit buttons.
<form class="myForm"> <!-- Some Inputs Here --> <input type="submit" name="firstSubmit" value="first submit" /> <input type="submit" name="secondSubmit" value="second submit" /> </form>
I am submitting this form via JQuery.
$(".myForm").submit(function(){ var submitButton = ? //I need to catch the submit button that was clicked });
How can I know which submit button was clicked?