Question

I have a simple form that goes on to create all the form and validation requirements for codeigniter. What I want to do is filter out any empty inputs prior to serialization so that I do not create form inputs and form validation set rules. I am at a loss as to how to go about this. Where I have the alert in the Jquery is where I want to remove any empty inputs(again prior to serialization). At this point what I am using does not detect empty form fields. Without the detection code the entire system works fine. Here is what I am using

    <h1>Field Name</h1>
    <form action="Form.php" onsubmit="return false;" id="form" method="post">
    <input type="text" name="v1" id="v1" /> 
    <input type="text" name="v2" id="v2" /> 
    <input type="text" name="v3" id="v3" /> 
    <input type="text" name="v4" id="v4" /> 
    <input type="text" name="v5" id="v5" /> 
    <input type="text" name="v6" id="v6" /> 

<input type="submit" name="send" id="send" value="Send" />
        </form>
<hr />
<script>
$(function(){
$('#send').click(function(){ 
---------------------------------------   
    $(":input").each(function() {
    if($(this).val() === "")
    alert("Empty Fields!!"); //using alert just to see if empty fields are detected.
    return false;
});
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var data = $('#form').serialize();
    $.ajax({
        type: "POST",
        data: data,
        url: "Form.php",
        success: function(msg){
             if(msg){
                $('#display').html(msg).show();
             }else{
                $('#display').text("<p>nothing came back</p>");
             }
        }       
    });
return false;    
});
});

I am simply trying to avoid printing out empty form fields

<p>
<label for=""></label> <br />
<input type="text" name="" id="" /> <br />
<label class="error" id=""> This field is required</label> <br />
<p/>

Thank you for your time

Answer 1

This will remove all the text fields which have a value of length 0:

$('#send').click(function(){ 
$(':input[type="text"]').filter(function(e){
    if (this.value.length===0){
      return true;
    }  
}).remove();
    });

example: http://jsfiddle.net/niklasvh/ZBSyX/