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

Here's the approach that seems cleaner for my purposes.

First, for any and all forms:

$('form').click(function(event) {
  $(this).data('clicked',$(event.target))
});

When this click event is fired for a form, it simply records the originating target (available in the event object) to be accessed later. This is a pretty broad stroke, as it will fire for any click anywhere on the form. Optimization comments are welcome, but I suspect it will never cause noticeable issues.

Then, in $('form').submit(), you can inquire what was last clicked, with something like

if ($(this).data('clicked').is('[name=no_ajax]')) xhr.abort();