Send data as a javascript array

Question

HTML

<li id="li-tip-line">
   <table>
        <tbody><tr>
           <td>
            <label for="lblTipLine" data-petkey="dog">Dog Tip Line Amount :</label></td>
             <td>
            <input type="text" name="tip-line-amount" id="tip-line-amount" value="0.00" class="cls-tip-line-amount"></td>
           </tr>
           <tr>
           <td>
            <label for="lblTipLine" data-petkey="bruiser">Bruiser Tip Line Amount :</label></td>
            <td>
         <input type="text" name="tip-line-amount" class="tip-line-amount" value="0.00" class="cls-tip-line-amount"></td>
          </tr>
        </tbody></table>
 </li>

UI

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My Question

When user clicks the 'paid' button,need to send the "data-petkey" value and the "tip-line-amount" as an array ? How can I do that ?

As a sidenote, you shouldn't have two input fields with the same name and id. — danblundell
– danblundell, Commented Mar 6, 2014 at 13:38
@Sampath there's no such thing as a jQuery array, jQuery is a javascript library, not a language. — danblundell
– danblundell, Commented Mar 6, 2014 at 13:39

Anton · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-06 13:51:57Z

2

Use .map()

var arrData = $('[data-petkey],.tip-line-amount').map(function(){
      return ($(this).hasClass('tip-line-amount')?this.value:$(this).data('petkey'));
}).get();
//returns ["dog", "0.00", "bruiser", "0.00"]

DEMO

If you want 2 seperate arrays do this

var arrDataKey = $('[data-petkey]').map(function(){
      return $(this).data('petkey');
}).get();

var arrLine = $('.tip-line-amount').map(function(){
      return this.value;
}).get();

If you want a JSON object {bruiser:"0.00",dog:"0.00"} use .each()

$('button').click(function () {
    var data = {};
    $(this).closest('table').find('[data-petkey]').each(function () {
        data[$(this).data('petkey')] = $(this).closest('tr').find('.tip-line-amount').val();
    });
    console.log(data);
});

DEMO

edited Mar 6, 2014 at 13:51

answered Mar 6, 2014 at 13:43

Anton

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Sampath Over a year ago

Can you tell me how to send this array into server (in my case, asp.net mvc) and extract the array content separately ?

Darren20 · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-06 16:44:55Z

Anton's answer is awesome. But maybe what you really want to do is send the post request via ajax. suppose you form like this:

<form method="post" action="paid.aspx" id="payform">
<li id="li-tip-line">
    <table>
        <tbody><tr>
        <td>
        <label for="lblTipLine" data-petkey="dog">Dog Tip Line Amount :</label></td>
        <td>
        <input type="text" name="tip-line-amount" id="tip-line-amount" value="0.00" class="cls-tip-line-amount"></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
        <td>
        <label for="lblTipLine" data-petkey="bruiser">Bruiser Tip Line Amount :</label></td>
        <td>
        <input type="text" name="tip-line-amount" class="tip-line-amount" value="0.00" class="cls-tip-line-amount"></td>
        </tr>
        </tbody>
    </table>
</li>
</form>

and use this script

<script>
    $( document ).ready(function() {
        $("#payform").submit(function(e){
            e.preventDefault();
            $.post($("#payform").attr('action'),$("#payform").serialize())
                .done(function(data) {
                    // handle the result from the server
                    alert(data);
                });
        });
    });
</script>

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