jquery getting post action url

Question

I'm trying to access the post target action in a jquery function.

example:

<form action="/page/users" id="signup" method="post">

I'd like to access the "action" part - "/page/users" in this case.

$('#signup').live("submit", function(event) {
    // get this submitted action
}

Seems like I'm missing something very simple. I see the value in the dom but don't know where it's stored in jquery.

Thanks!

Answer 1

$('#signup').live("submit", function(event) {
    $form = $(this);

    alert('the action is: ' + $form.attr('action'));
}