jQuery iframe form submit

Lee picture Lee · Aug 4, 2010 · Viewed 31.6k times · Source

Is there any way to submit an iframed form from jQuery? What I have is the following:

$('button#bookingButton').click(function(){
    $('<iframe id="externalSite" class="externalSite" src="/form/page" />').dialog({
        title:'Form', 
        autoOpen: true, 
        width: 800, 
        height: 600, 
        modal: false, 
        resizable: false,
        buttons:{
            'Close':function(){$(this).dialog("close");},
            'Add Booking':function(){$('form#bookingForm').submit();}
        }
    }).width(800 - 25);
});

This creates a jQuery ui dialog which has an iframe within it. This works fine and the regular submit button works fine however the jQuery button does not submit the form.

Answer

Bob Gregor picture Bob Gregor · Aug 4, 2010

add this AFTER you insert the IFRAME into the DOM:

 $("#externalSite").contents().find('form').submit()