Question

I have the following piece of code, inside a php script

foreach( $results as $i => $value ){ ?>
    <li><form action="getDetail.php" id="detailForm<?= $i ?>" >
    <input name="application" value="myTemplate" type="hidden" />
    <input name="user" value=<?= $value->publisherID ?> type="hidden" />
    <a href="javascript:document.getElementById('detailForm<?= $i ?>').submit();" >
    <div class="row" style="padding-left: 10px;"><?= $value->publisherName ?></div>
    </a></form></li>
<?php }

it’s working, but I was wondering how I could put this better

remove all form id’s
and put something more generic like

<a href="javascript:$(this).parents('form').submit();" >

which is not working

neither does:

<a href="javascript:$('#detailForm<?= $i ?>').submit();" >

(gives this jquery error-> Uncaught Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: );’))

thanks

Answer 1

i think maybe the parents() function returns a list, try doing like this instead:

<a href="javascript://" onclick="$(this).closest("form").submit(); return false">