How To Determine The Parent Form Element Of An Input

Author: , April 14th, 2011

Original Post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/991367/how-to-get-the-form-parent-of-an-input Native DOM elements that are inputs also have a form attribute that points to the form they belong to: var Form = element.form; alert(jQuery(Form).attr(‘name’)); Use the jQuery closest() function for NON-INPUT elements: var $form = jQuery(element).closest(‘form’); alert($form.attr(‘name’)); Another cool post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/311579/jquery-js-how-do-i-select-the-parent-form-based-on-which-submit-button-is-clic