jquery: How to deal with 'this' in ajax callbacks
- by Svish
I currently have code similar to this for a form:
$('#some-form')
.submit(function()
{
// Make sure we are not already busy
if($(this).data('busy'))
return false;
$(this).data('busy', true);
// Do post
$.post("some/url", $(this).serialize(), function(data)
{
if(data.success) // Success is a boolean I set in the result on the server
{
// Deal with data
}
else
{
// Display error
}
$('#some-form')
.removeData('busy');
});
return false;
});
My issue is that I would like to somehow remove the need for knowing the form id in the post callback. In the end where I remove the busy data from the form, I'd like to somehow not have that hard coded. Is there any way I can do this? Is there a way I can hand whatever is in this to the post callback function? Since I know the id right now, I can get around it by doing what I have done, but I'd like to know how to not be dependant on knowing the id, since often I don't have an id. (For example if I have a link in each row in a table and all the rows have the same click handler.
