Question

I have a few forms with the IDs comment_addXXX. I want to submit all of these at once, rather than individually submit each form.

i.e. Can I simplify something like:

$('#comment_add1111').submit();
$('#comment_add111122').submit();
$('#comment_add1222111').submit();
$('#comment_add11133331').submit();

Into something like:

$('#comment_add*').submit();

Answer 1

Try the starts with selector

$('form[id^=comment_add]').each(function() {
    $(this).submit();
});

See http://api.jquery.com/attribute-starts-with-selector/