A submit button's value is only submitted to a server if it is clicked - .serialize() has no reason to serialize it (explicitly) because it doesn't watch for clicks occurring.
I recommend the jQuery Form plugin for that: http://malsup.com/jquery/form/#api --John On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Mackram <mack...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > So i was trying to use the .serialize() function found in the library > and I discovered that the function does not take into consideration > the input type submit. This is weird since the documentation does not > point this out. Furthermore, I think that this input type should be > part of the output since it probably is usefull to determining the > action on the server side. > > Can someone explain the reason behind this decision? or is this a bug > that needs to be fixed. > > > ///// serialize function from jquery-1.3.2 > serialize: function() { > return jQuery.param(this.serializeArray()); > }, > serializeArray: function() { > return this.map(function(){ > return this.elements ? > jQuery.makeArray(this.elements) : this; > }) > .filter(function(){ > return this.name && !this.disabled && > (this.checked || > /select|textarea/i.test(this.nodeName) || > > /text|hidden|password|search/i.test(this.type)); //<<- here would > be the missing type submit > }) > .map(function(i, elem){ > var val = jQuery(this).val(); > return val == null ? null : > jQuery.isArray(val) ? > jQuery.map( val, function(val, i){ > return {name: elem.name, > value: val}; > }) : > {name: elem.name, value: val}; > }).get(); > } > }); > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to jquery-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to jquery-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
