Question

In the following example I get title from this form using html id=title.

How do I do the same, but instead of using ID then using name?

$(document).ready(function(){

    $('form').live('submit', function(){

    var aform = $('form[name="create_form"]');

    // get the entire form
    var form = $(this);

    // get form title field by ID
    var title = this.elements.title.value;

    // get selected radio button using name instead if ID
    var type = $(this).find('input:radio[name="ctype"]:checked').val() || '';

    alert(title);

In the case of the radio button, is it gotten by name, but I can’t figure out how to translate that syntax to a normal form field of

<input name="title" id="55544_title" type="text" />

Answer 1

in this line

// get form title field by ID
var title = this.elements.title.value

you are not getting it with the id, you are getting it with the name attribute, so in some way you are already doing it correctly