JQuery selector to find element by name inside a form element

Question

I have a from element which has a hidden field with name 'code'. My webpage my contain multiple form elements and each form element will have hidden field with the same name. I want to find the value of a hidden field which is inside a particular form. How do I find it?

<form id="myform" method="POST" action="">
    <input type="hidden" name="code" value="1-1406394571-b80d90865365921f3048bfb591d07cf0b0c48ee7">
</form>

Answer 1

Since your form has an Id, you can use ID selector and attribute selector together to get the value of hidden field as below.

code = jQuery('#myform input[name="code"]').val();