setting target _blank for just one form submit action

Question

I\'m submitting a form to my rails app, with two submit buttons. They both go to the same controller action, and use the same form, but on one submit action i want to make

Answer 1

you can intercept click to the button, read it's data and change form before submit:

So, HTML:

   
    Submmit here
    Open new
​

JS

$('button.Submit').click( function() {
    var t=$(this);
    var form=t.parents('form');
    form.attr('target',t.data('target'));
    form.submit();
    return false;
});

this way you can control the target option in your html markup.

http://jsfiddle.net/oceog/gArdk/

in case if you not clear target of the form, you will get the following scenario:

• user click on popup button,
• submitted the form,
• closed window,
• click on non-popup

and that will also popup him form target.

so in my snipplet I clear target in case of data-target=''

if you want mark as popup only one element, you will need to clone your form: http://jsfiddle.net/oceog/gArdk/2/

JS:

$('button.Submit.popup').click( function() {
    var t=$(this);
    var form=t.parents('form').clone(true).attr('target','_blank');
    
    form.submit();
    return false;
});

HTML:

   
    Submmit here
    Open new
​