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

Building on what Stan and yann-h did but this one defaults to the first button. The beauty of this overall approach is that it picks up both the click and the enter key (even if the focus was not on the button. If you need to allow enter in the form, then just respond to this when a button is focused (i.e. Stan's answer). In my case, I wanted to allow enter to submit the form even if the user's current focus was on the text box.

I was also using a 'name' attribute rather than 'id' but this is the same approach.

var pressedButtonName =
     typeof $(":input[type=submit]:focus")[0] === "undefined" ?
     $(":input[type=submit]:first")[0].name :
     $(":input[type=submit]:focus")[0].name;