Question

I’ve got a problem with submitting AJAX forms – using this tutorial.

My forms are in div#upform and when I’m trying to submit any of them via $.ajax it submits only the first one, here’s the code:

$(function() {  
    $(".button").click(function() {  
        var txt = $(".tekst#test").val();  
        var dataString = 'tekst='+ tekscior;

        $.ajax({  
            type: "POST",  
            url: "upload/base",  
            data: dataString,  
            success: function() {  
                $('#upform').html("<div id='message'></div>");  
                $('#message').html("<h2>described!</h2>")  
                    .append("<p>thanks!</p>")  
                    .hide()  
                    .fadeIn(1500, function() {  
                        $('#message').append("<img id='checkmark' src='http://artivia-dev2/i/check.png' />");  
                    });  
            }  
        });  
        return false; 
    });  
});  

AND Here are my forms:

<!-- ONLY THIS ONE IS SUBMITTED, EVEN WHEN I'M SUBMITTING THE SECOND ONE! -->
<div class="slidingDiv">
    <div id="upform">
        <form name="contact" action="">  
            <input type="text" value="TESTFORM" class="tekst" id="test">
            <input type="submit" name="submit" class="button" id="submit" value="Send" />
        <form>
    </div> 

    <div class="slidingDiv">
        <div id="upform">
            <form name="contact" action=""> 
                <input type="text" value="TESTFORM" class="tekst" id="test">
                <input type="submit" name="submit" class="button" id="submit" value="Send" />
            <form>
        </div> 

@@UPDATE

Problem, when I submit one form – it’s great – but when after this one submit I want to submit the second – the data is submitted correctly, but the success messages are refreshed in both forms, that’s the fix, which I’ve triend to use, but it doesn’t work:

    $.ajax({  
          type: "POST",  
          url: "upload/base",  
          data: dataString,  
          success: function() {  

        upform.html("<div class='message'></div>");  

             var mess =  $(this).closest('.message');

             mess.html("<h2>Described</h2>")  
            .append("<p>Thanks!</p>")  
            .hide()  
            .fadeIn(1500, function() {  
            mess.append("<img id='checkmark' src='http://ar-dev2/i/check.png' />");  
            });  


          }  
        }); 

Answer 1

First, you should not use same id to multiple element. Instead of that you may use class or name or data attribute.

$(".button").click(function() {  

   var upform = $(this).closest('.upform'); // keep reference of upform

    var txt = $(this).prev(".tekst").val();  // this will retrieve the value of input
                                             // nearest to the button

    var dataString = 'tekst='+ tekscior;

    ......

    $.ajax({
      type: "POST",  
      url: "upload/base",  
      data: dataString,
      success: function() {
        upform.html();
        .....
      }
    });
});

Problem with var txt = $(".tekst#test"); selector:

It has been started searching from top and when it found a match it stop journey and return the value and you always get the value of first one. If you use

var txt = $(".tekst"); without id, you will face the same problem.