Question

I have a form that has no id, no class whatsoever. I need to get all the inputs that are inside it, I have a script but it will get all inputs no matter if they are inside my form or not.

Of course I could add classes, id’s to my forms but is there any way of doing what I want without adding identifiers to my form?

It is only logical that in my case it will iterate trough every input on my page, but how can I make sure it will only iterate trough every input on current form?

$('form').submit(function(e){
    e.preventDefault();

    $('input, textarea').each(function(){
        alert('a'); // Alerts on every input, not just inside this form...
    });
});

Fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/dsN43/

Answer 1

You can pass this as context (second parameter) to jQuery function to search only inside current element.

$('form').submit(function(e){
    e.preventDefault();

    $('input, textarea', this).each(function(){
        alert('a'); // Alerts on every input inside this form.
    });
});