Question

Im having issues with getting some jQuery to run when the DOM is ready.

I have two forms, each with a <select> which when my code runs should load in other form elements.

When the user first loads the page, I want these selects on ready() to grab certain attributes (form action, load() target etc) and then load that in. Works perfectly fine when using change() and I can get one <select> to work when but not both.

HTML

<form action="php/bagCreate/newBag_bag.php" method="post" id="form1">
  <select id="target" data-target="upForm" class="get" name="bagLevel">
    <option>1</option>   
    <option>2</option>  
    <option>3</option>   
  </select>        
</form>

<form action="php/bagCreate/storeItems_bag.php" method="post" id="form2">      
  <select id="target2" data-target="upFormType" class="get" name="itemName">
    <option>A</option>   
    <option>B</option>  
    <option>C</option>   
  </select>        
</form>

JS

This works for a single form, but the second wont load

$(document).ready(function(){
$('select.get').ready(function() {
    var action = $('select.get').parent().attr('action');
    var target = $('select.get').data('target');
    $('#'+target).load(action, $('select.get').parent().serializeArray());     
});

changing select.get to this inside the ready function causes neither of the forms to load.

Using change() works perfectly fine for both forms, although it is a bit of a repetition

$('select.get').change(function() {        
  var action = $(this).parent().attr('action');  
  var target = $(this).data('target');  
  $('#'+target).load(action, $(this).parent().serializeArray());      
});

Answer 1

Just trigger the change event on pageload ?

$('select.get').change(function() {        
  var action = $(this).parent().attr('action');  
  var target = $(this).data('target');  
  $('#'+target).load(action, $(this).parent().serializeArray());      
}).change(); //trigger it on pageload as well ...