Is there a better jQuery solution to this.form.submit();?

Question

I want to trigger the submit event of the form the current element is in. A method I know works sometimes is:

this.form.submit();

I\'m wond

Answer 1

Similar to Matthew's answer, I just found that you can do the following:

$(this).closest('form').submit();

Wrong: The problem with using the parent functionality is that the field needs to be immediately within the form to work (not inside tds, labels, etc).

I stand corrected: parents (with an s) also works. Thxs Paolo for pointing that out.