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

You want to use window.event.srcElement.id like this:

function clickTheButton() {

var Sender = window.event.srcElement;
alert("the item clicked was " + Sender.id)

}

for a button that looks like:

you will get an alert that reads: "the item clicked was myButton.

In your improved example you can add window.event.srcElement to process_form_submission and you will have a reference to whichever element invoked the process.