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Answer 1

+3 A:

Use the starts with selector ^ and each function like this:

var arr = new array();
$('input[name^="session"]').each(function(){
   alert($(this).val());
   // arr[] = $(this).val();
});

Sarfraz 2010-08-04 18:04:03

cool thanks I'll try this. I've never seen it like this before.

creocare 2010-08-04 18:07:48

Slight variation, using map to get everything into an array. `arr = $('input[name^="session"]').map(function(){ return this.value; });`

Patrick McElhaney 2010-08-04 18:09:28

@Patrick McElhaney: Yup that's more easier/better. Thanks :)

Sarfraz 2010-08-04 18:11:15

I think part of why you don't see this type of thing more often is most devs would just assign the same class to all these inputs and use the jQuery selector to find all elements with that class assignment. The logic works the exact same, but if you are likely to style all these inputs the same way anyways..the class selector could be cleaner..

fdfrye 2010-08-04 18:15:38

oops this is great but how would you do this in php.....

creocare 2010-08-04 20:10:56

Answer 2

+2 A:

How about this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
<html>
    <head>
      <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
      <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
        $(document).ready(function() {
          var values = [];
          $("input[name^='session']").each(function(i, anInput) {
            values[i] = $(anInput).val();
          })
        })
      </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <input type="text" value="5" name="session0" />
        <input type="text" value="7" name="session1" />
        <input type="text" value="2" name="session2" />
        <input type="text" value="1" name="session3" />
    </body>
</html>

Jared Hales 2010-08-04 18:12:52

i was too slow :)

Jared Hales 2010-08-04 18:13:13

But you went to the trouble of making a complete, working example. Have an upvote. :-)

Patrick McElhaney 2010-08-04 18:16:46

ha, thanks! i don't use this site a lot, but when i do, i try to offer the most "complete" example i can whip up in a few minutes.

Jared Hales 2010-08-04 18:22:19

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