javascript - jquery get all input from specific form

Question

Is there any ways to populate all of the input from certain form? let say, some thing like this:

<form id="unique00">
  <input type="text" name="whatever" id="whatever" value="whatever" />
  <div>
    <input type="checkbox" name="whatever" id="whatever" value="whatever" />
  </div>
  <table><tr><td>
    <input type="hidden" name="whatever" id="whatever" value="whatever" />
    <input type="submit" value="qweqsac" />
  </td></tr></table>
</form>
<form id="unique01">
  <div>
    <input type="text" name="whatever" id="whatever" value="whatever" />
    <input type="checkbox" name="whatever" id="whatever" value="whatever" />
  </div>
  <table><tr><td>
    <input type="hidden" name="whatever" id="whatever" value="whatever" />
  </td></tr></table>
  <select>blah...</select>
  <input type="submit" value="qweqsac" />
</form>
etc forms... forms...

*note: each form might have a different amount of input and type and also different html structure

so is there any way to populate the input from certain form id? eg if i click submit button from certain form id, then jquery will populate for me all of the input within those form id. currently what i'm doing is like this:

$("form").submit(function(){ return validateForm($(this)) });
function validateForm(form){
var retVal = true;
var re;
$.each(form.serializeArray(), function(i, field) {
  var input = $('input[name='+field.name+']');
  field.value = $.trim(field.value);
  switch(field.name){
    case "name" :
        and another cases...
      }
    })
 }

that was work, but in that case, i only get the field.name and field.value, and actually what i want is, i want a jquery object for each input element, so i can access their css, id, name, and even animate those input element

is there any way for this?

please let me know and thank you in advance! AnD

Answer 1

To iterate through all the inputs in a form you can do this:

$("form#formID :input").each(function(){
 var input = $(this); // This is the jquery object of the input, do what you will
});

This uses the jquery :input selector to get ALL types of inputs, if you just want text you can do :

$("form#formID input[type=text]")//...

etc.