Rails 3: How to trigger a form submission via javascript?

Question

I have a form that for the most part just submits as a normal form, so I don\'t want to set in the form_tag the :remote => true option.

However, under certain circum

Answer 1

I'm sorta new to this but here goes...

rails.js (the jquery one at least) defines the following function to catch and submit forms:

$('form').live('submit.rails', function(e) { ... });

If you use the following it should trigger the same function (and if :remote => true, then it wont cause a page reload):

$("#").trigger("submit.rails");

So, if you wanted to submit your form on a select change for example, you could set the above trigger call to the select's :onchange I would imagine.