jQuery: how to get which button was clicked upon form submission?

Question

I have a .submit() event set up for form submission. I also have multiple forms on the page, but just one here for this example. I\'d like to know which submi

Answer 1

Another possible solution is to add a hidden field in your form:

Then in the ready function add functions to record what key was pressed:

$('form#myForm #btnSubmit').click(function() {
    $('form#myForm #btaction').val(0);
});

$('form#myForm #btnSubmitAndSend').click(function() {
    $('form#myForm #btaction').val(1);
});

$('form#myForm #btnDelete').click(function() {
    $('form#myForm #btaction').val(2);
});

Now in the form submition handler read the hidden variable and decide based on it:

var act = $('form#myForm #btaction').val();