Christopher Jordan schrieb:
> Yeah, that's actually where I found my answer Klaus. I'm a bit
> embarrassed that I basically posted the question a second time. It
> didn't immediately occur to me that I could do the same thing with
> "input:type" that I could with ".classA". I'm not a css stud so I guess
> I didn't think of the index:type syntax as being a css selector... what
> I did think it was, I have no idea. :o'
>
> Well, I appreciate everyone's patience with me.
>
> The upshot of all this is that I managed to condense what would have
> taken at least one-hundred lines of code down to only three... well one
> really, except that I like to split things out on to separate lines. The
> idea was to gather all the form fields and put their values in an object
> such that I could pass all the variables in one single structure. Here's
> what I ended up with:
>
> var obj = new Object;
> // all inputs of type text, hidden, select and textarea
>
> $("input:text,input:hidden,select,textarea").each(function(){
> eval("obj." + this.name + " = '" + this.value + "';");
> });
> Very nice. Simple. Clean. Thank you, thank you, thank you jQuery! ...
> and all you guys who help me with my questions no matter how basic. I am
> learning, and I use more and more jQuery every day! :o)
>
> Thanks heaps!
> Chris
Avoid eval whenever possible...
obj[this.name] = this.value
-- Klaus
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