I'm using jQuery to submit a form in an MVC app. I have a breakpoint inside the controller and I see it is being hit twice. What am I doing wrong?
Here is my jQuery
(function ($) {
$(document).ready(function () {
$(':radio').change(function () {
$('#frmMDR').submit();
});
});
})(jQuery);
and here is the form html
<form action="/Module/ModuleIndex" id="frmMDR" method="get">
<input id="rdoMaintenance" name="module" type="radio" value="Maintenance" /><label for="rdoMaintenance">M</label>
<input id="rdoDiagnostics" name="module" type="radio" value="Diagnostics" /><label for="rdoDiagnostics">D</label>
<input id="rdoRepair" name="module" type="radio" value="Repair" /><label for="rdoRepair">R</label>
<input id="hdnVehicle" name="hdnVehicle" type="hidden" value="" />
</form>
I'm guessing I shouldn't be using the change event. If anyone knows how to correct the problem, I'd love to hear any ideas. Thanks so much for any tips.
Cheers,
~ck in San Diego
You are getting two hits because two radio buttons are changing state. Radio buttons only allow one element in a group to be selected so when you are clicking a radio button, two events are happening:
This is two events and the reason why your code is being hit twice. To solve it you could give your radio buttons a class and then handle the event on click using the class as the selector.
<input class="radio" id="rdoMaintenance" name="module" type="radio" value="Maintenance" /><label for="rdoMaintenance">M</label>
<input class="radio" id="rdoDiagnostics" name="module" type="radio" value="Diagnostics" /><label for="rdoDiagnostics">D</label>
<input class="radio" id="rdoRepair" name="module" type="radio" value="Repair" /><label for="rdoRepair">R</label>
And your jQuery could be:
$('.radio').click(function () {
$('#frmMDR').submit();
});