Pass extra variable when submitting a form using jQuery

Question

I have a form in which the Submit button does not sit within the

tags. The submit button has an click handler to submit the form via jQuer

Answer 1

One thing you could do is use the onsubmit attribute to have javascript inject a post field into the form with the value of the submit button right as it is submitted. You'd have to do this with a hidden input field, but you'd only add the input field right after the user clicked the submit button -- so the input field wouldn't exist there from the beginning (hopefully this satisfies your requirements). So something like:

 function submitHandler()
 {
     submitVal = $('#submitButton').val();
     $('#myForm').append("");
     return true;
 }

Which would stick in the extra value right as the button was clicked.