jQuery Ajax Calling Struts Action class

[Joe Harry]

Guys,

I'm trying just what this posts title says. Here is my sample:

$(document).ready(function(){
	// set the tabs
	$("#tabs").tabs();
	// Capture the form's submit event
	$('.inlineForm').live('submit', function() {alert(this.href);
		$.ajax({ // create an AJAX call...

			data: $(this).serialize(), // get the form data
			type: $(this).attr('method'), // GET or POST
			url: $(this).attr('action'), // the file to call
			success: function(response) { // on success..
				$('.ui-tabs-panel:visible').html(response); // update the DIV
			}
		});
	return false; // cancel original event to prevent form submitting
	});
}); // END (DOCUMENT).READY

The form in Struts notion is:

<s:form action="startExam" namespace="/content" cssClass="inlineForm">
	<s:textfield name="firstname" id="firstName" label="First Name"/>
	<s:submit name="submit" value="Submit Registration"/>
</s:form>

The rendered html on the browser is:

<form id="startExam" class="inlineForm" method="post" action="/Quintilis31Web/content/startExam.action" name="startExam">
   <table class="inlineForm">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
       <td class="tdLabel">
         <label class="label" for="firstName">First Name:</label>
       </td>
       <td>
          <input id="firstName" type="text" value="" name="firstname">
       </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
       <td colspan="2">
          <div align="right">
             <input id="startExam_submit" type="submit" value="Submit Registration" name="submit">
          </div>
       </td>
    </tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</form>

Why would alert(this.href) print undefined?

[Joe Harry]

Looks like there is no href attribute for a submit button. This is why I get to see undefined. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[Bear Bibeault]

That's correct. Why would you think that there was? Do you not have an HTML reference handy?

[Joe Harry]

Actually in all these years of my programming experience, I always had little to do with HTML and Javascript stuff. But now I wanted to get hands on for a project that I'm developing during my spare time. So it is learning on the go and I find it quite interesting. I do not want to forget to mention that Javaranch is like my mentor here.

[Bear Bibeault]

Get yourself some good references on HTML and JavaScript, else you're really flying blind.