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imlouisrussell
imlouisrussell

Reputation: 946

Issue Posting Form Via jQuery - No Console Errors

I'm trying to post a form via jQuery .post(), and it's not working as it should. I'm getting nothing from the console, and it's quite frustrating. Requesting help from an experienced JS user. Thanks a lot for all of your help!

NOTE: This form is constructed with CodeIgniter, and posts perfectly fine using its Form Helper and HTML conventional routes. The JS/jQuery method is what is not working properly.

Form:

    <form class="nice custom" id="create_form">

                    <h3>Create Event</h3>

                    <label for="intention"><strong>Intention:</strong></label>
                    <?php $intention_attributes='style="width: 100%; " class="show-on-phones" id="intention_dropdown"'; ?>
                    <?php echo form_dropdown('intention', $intention, 'Select Intention', $intention_attributes ); ?>
                    <div class="custom dropdown show-on-desktops" style="width: 100%; ">
                        <a href="#" class="current">Select Intention</a>
                        <a href="#" class="selector"></a>
                        <ul style="width: 100%; ">
                            <li>Select Intention</li>
                            <li>Option 1</li>
                            <li>Option 2</li>
                            <li>Option 3</li>
                            <li>Option 4</li>
                            <li>Option 5</li>
                        </ul>
                    </div>

                    <label for="action"><strong>Action:</strong></label>
                    <?php echo form_input($action); ?>

                    <label for="date_of_event"><strong>Date:</strong></label>
                    <?php echo form_input($date_of_event); ?>

                    <label for="repeat_event"><strong>Repeat:</strong></label>
                    <?php $repeat_event_attributes='style="width: 100%; " class="show-on-phones" id="repeat_event_dropdown"'; ?>
                    <?php echo form_dropdown('repeat_event', $repeat_event, 'Never', $repeat_event_attributes); ?>
                    <div class="custom dropdown show-on-desktops" style="width: 100%; ">
                        <a href="#" class="current">Never</a>
                        <a href="#" class="selector"></a>
                        <ul style="width: 100%; ">
                            <li>Never</li>
                            <li>Every Day</li>
                            <li>Every Week</li>
                            <li>Every Two Weeks</li>
                            <li>Every Month</li>
                            <li>Every year</li>
                        </ul>
                    </div>

                    <label for="end_repeat_event"><strong>End Repeat:</strong></label>
                    <?php echo form_input($end_repeat_event); ?>

                    <br />

                    <input style="width: 100%; " type="submit" name="submit" class="medium radius blue button" value="Create" id="create_button" />
</form>

JavaScript:

// Submit Create Form
    $('#create_form').live('submit', function() {
        var data = $('#create_form').serialize();
        var url = $(this).attr('action');
        $.post(url, data, function() {
            document.location.reload();
        });
        return false;
    }); // End

Upvotes: 1

Views: 81

Answers (3)

Peter Ehrlich
Peter Ehrlich

Reputation: 7135

Also, press the black dot button on the top of the console output tab (webkit browsers). This will preserve log messages between page loads.

Upvotes: 0

Michael Grassman
Michael Grassman

Reputation: 1935

Try changing the name of your submit button to btnSubmit. I've had issues in the past with naming the submit button submit.

Thanks,

Upvotes: 0

Sampson
Sampson

Reputation: 268374

Your form has no action value:

<form class="nice custom" id="create_form">

Even though you're attempting to get one:

var url = $(this).attr('action');

Also, avoid using $.live from here on out:

As of jQuery 1.7, the .live() method is deprecated. Use .on() to attach event handlers. Users of older versions of jQuery should use .delegate() in preference to .live().

— http://api.jquery.com/live/

Upvotes: 1

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