[Javascript] Which submit caused the event?

[Tedd Sperling]

On Jan 1, 2013, at 11:55 AM, Hassan Schroeder <hassan at webtuitive.com> wrote:

> On 1/1/13 8:04 AM, Tedd Sperling wrote:
> 
>> Let's say I have a form containing three input statement, like so:
>> 
>> <form action="" method="post" name="myform"  onsubmit="javascript:test(); return false;" >
>>    < input type="submit" name="edit" value="Edit">
>>    < input type="submit" name="save" value="Save">
>>    < input type="submit" name="cancel" value="Cancel">
>> </form>
>> 
>> If this form is submitted, how can I tell what the user clicked via JavaScript?
> 
> event.target or event.srcElement (IE-specific)

I'm not trying to be a smart-ass, but have you tried it?

Here's how you can prove your assertion -- write a script that simply shows which input submit (as shown above) was clicked via an alert. It should be simple enough, but I've spent a couple of days trying to do it and believe me I've tried event.target as well as a couple hundred other combinations of ambiguous javascript terms INCLUDING jQuery's answer to all of this, which doesn't work for me either.

I did get something to work, see here:

http://php1.net/jQuery/test.php

Everything is there.

However, when I try to take the result of this to an ajax POST, I find it only works once -- I'm giving up for today.

Cheers and thanks for your time.

tedd


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