Jquery submit event which button

For what it's worth, you don't need to use jQuery to get the id - it's even simpler to use pure Javascript: document. Note that this doesn't appear to work as expected on Safari.

In Safari document. In my case it's a modal div which contains the form. When the form is submitted: document. Nick F Nick F 8, 7 7 gold badges 69 69 silver badges 85 85 bronze badges. I do not know how about Safari but on Chrome worked good : Thanks! I had jquery unobtrusive validation running, and that intercepts before this and sets the invalid input as activeElement instead of the button. Good point Daan: if you submit the form by hitting Enter there might not be a "button that was clicked.

I've updated the answer to make this clear. Here's the approach that seems cleaner for my purposes. Jonathan Camenisch Jonathan Camenisch 3, 1 1 gold badge 18 18 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. What if this is an form submit event instead of click? Tony, sorry I didn't see your question sooner. This answer is entirely in regards to form submits. Submit buttons get clicked too, and thus they fire the click event.

Upvoting this answer over hunter's answer since the form's submit events are fired before any child element click events. This causes difficulties when your form's submit event is cancelled with return false , whereas this method works correctly since the click is bound to the form instead of its children. This fails to properly handle the case where the form is submitted by means other than a click e. When the form is submitted via other means, it is the first submit button that triggered the submit event, not the one last clicked.

There is a semicolon missing after Thomas Williams Thomas Williams 1, 1 1 gold badge 13 13 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. Damn I have to see if my page works on Safari now doh. Why does Safari always have to be so difficult. Thanks for that. Going to check when I get home — Thomas Williams.

This isn't working for me in Safari. Click listener on a Button in the body calls. This doesn't work with keyboard submission. I was also using a 'name' attribute rather than 'id' but this is the same approach.

Saheb Mondal Saheb Mondal 1 1 silver badge 7 7 bronze badges. This deserves medal! How is this any different than the answer provided by Stan? Roldan Roldan 1 1 silver badge 11 11 bronze badges. It will only work if an id is assigned to the button, however, since event. Would this works for any number of forms on the page? I don't know if this is desired behavior, but your code doesn't actually submit the form, so mine doesn't either.

If you do want to submit it just remove the event. And if you submit without a click return key? This really should be the selected answer.

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Recommended:- jQuery scrolltop animate example. Filed Under: Jquery Tagged With: jquery prevent form submit on button click , jquery submit form on button click. When the submit event occurs, the submit method attaches a function with it to run. JavaTpoint offers too many high quality services. Mail us on [email protected] , to get more information about given services. Please mail your requirement at [email protected] Duration: 1 week to 2 week.

Next Topic jQuery keydown. Reinforcement Learning. R Programming. React Native. Python Design Patterns. Description: Bind an event handler to the "submit" JavaScript event, or trigger that event on an element. This method is a shortcut for.

The submit event is sent to an element when the user is attempting to submit a form. Depending on the browser, the Enter key may only cause a form submission if the form has exactly one text field, or only when there is a submit button present.