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Javascript function Checkform not showing my alert message

Actually working on a little one pager and need to verify that the form is properly filled before inserting the data in the database. The function works fine it does prevent the user from submitting when fields are empty, the only problem is that the error text that show up isn't the one I wrote in my code. Probably the default alert text showing and not mine for some reason. For your information I am currently using a bootstrap template with some php and javascript it is pretty basic. If anyone could point me in the good direction would be much appreciated.
Here is the script in the head of the html page:
<script type="text/javascript">
function checkForm(form)
{
...
if(!form.terms.checked) {
alert("Veuillez indiquer que vous acceptez de recevoir des offres promotionnelles");
form.terms.focus();
return false;
}
if(form.email.value == 0) {
alert("Veuillez remplir le courriel");
form.email.focus();
return false;
}
if(form.fname.value == 0) {
alert("Veuillez remplir votre prénom");
form.fname.focus();
return false;
}
if(form.lname.value == 0) {
alert("Veuillez remplir votre nom");
form.lname.focus();
return false;
}
return true;
}
</script>
Here is the Html :
<?php include 'send_post.php';?>
<form method="post" action="send_post.php" onsubmit="return checkForm(this)">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-3 col-md-6 text-center">
<div class="service-box">
<i class="fa fa-4x fa-pencil text-primary sr-icons"></i>
<h3>Prénom</h3>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="fname" name="fname" required="">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-3 col-md-6 text-center">
<div class="service-box">
<i class="fa fa-4x fa-pencil text-primary sr-icons"></i>
<h3>Nom</h3>
<input type="text" class="form-control" id="lname" name="lname" required="">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-3 col-md-6 text-center">
<div class="service-box">
<i class="fa fa-4x fa-envelope text-primary sr-icons"></i>
<h3>Courriel</h3>
<input type="email" class="form-control" id="email" name="email" required="">
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-3 col-md-6 text-center">
<div class="service-box">
<i class="fa fa-4x fa-globe text-primary sr-icons"></i>
<h3>Montagne</h3>
<select class="form-control" id="mont" name="mont" required="">
<option>Valinouet</option>
<option>Mont Bélu</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-10 style="margin-right:100px;padding-bottom:10px;>
<br>
<div class="checkbox">
<input type="checkbox" name="terms" value="check" id="terms" required=""/> J'accepte de recevoir des offres promotionnelles par e-mail, en cochant la case prévue à cet effet
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-12 text-center">
<button class="btn btn-primary btn-lg" type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit">Soumettre</button>
</div>
</div>
</form>
Thanks a lot for your time.

This is happening because you have used 'required' attribute in the html code which by default is triggered before the onsubmit() call

How to add dynamic data attribute value to a button and a div generated by repeater.js

I am using repeater.js to repeat a div with some input fields and button, but the problem is that i want to give each and every div a unique id so that i can extract data from all the fields of that particular div input elements.
this is the HTML Code:
<div class="form-group mt-repeater">
<a href="javascript:;" data-repeater-create class="btn btn-circle purple mt-repeater-add">
<i class="fa fa-edit"></i> Repeat Field
</a>
<div data-repeater-list="group-b">
<div data-repeater-item class="mt-repeater-item">
<div class="mt-repeater-cell">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-2">
<div class="form-group">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" id="dosage_form" class="form-control typeahead-findings circle-input" placeholder="Dosage Form">
<label for="dosage_form">e.g. Tablet / Syrup / Capsule etc.</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-2">
<div class="form-group">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" id="brand_name" class="form-control typeahead-findings circle-input" placeholder="Brand / Generic Name">
<label for="brand_name">e.g. Dytor</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-2">
<div class="form-group">
<input class="form-control circle-input" id="contents" type="text" placeholder="Contents" />
<span class="help-block"> e.g Paracetamol </span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-2">
<div class="form-group">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" id="dose" class="form-control typeahead-findings circle-input" placeholder="Dose">
<label for="dose">e.g. 20 mg / 20 ml</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-2">
<div class="form-group">
<input class="form-control circle-input" id="dose_regimen" type="text" placeholder="Dose Regimen" />
<span class="help-block"> e.g 1-1-1-1 </span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-2">
<div class="form-group">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" id="therapy_duration" class="form-control typeahead-findings circle-input" placeholder="Therapy Duration">
<label for="therapy_duration">e.g. 1 Day / 1 Month etc.</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-1 col-sm-6 col-xs-6">
<i class="fa fa-plus"></i>
</div>
<div class="col-md-1 col-sm-6 col-xs-6">
<i class="fa fa-minus"></i>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
every time i click on the add repater button this div gets replicated but what i also want is that the new div generated should have a unique div id also the curresponding elemnts inside it should have a class or id starting with that id so that data extraction can be easy for that particular div
I was using this Jquery code:
$(".addData").on('click' ,function()
{
alert("hi");
});
This is the repeater i am using: https://pastebin.com/n7g7tdTH
but this code only runs for the very first div on the later generated dynamic divs it doesn't run. I also tried editing the repeater.js but no success because its all dynamic and i am not able to understand where i should edit that code to add a dynamic data-counter value for the div and the corresponding elements.
Can anyone help with this logic?

Another option, to retrieve field values would be to rename all input field id with name (example below) and use repeater.js repeaterVal() to get all the field values .
$(".mt-repeater").repeater();
$("#getVal").click(function () {
$('.mt-repeater').repeaterVal()["group-b"].map(function(fields){
//fields contain the collection of input fields per row
console.log(fields["dosage_form"]);
console.log(fields["brand_name"]);
//....
})
})
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery.repeater/1.2.1/jquery.repeater.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twitter-bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" />
<div class="form-group mt-repeater">
<a href="javascript:;" data-repeater-create class="btn btn-circle purple mt-repeater-add">
<i class="fa fa-edit"></i> Repeat Field
</a>
<div data-repeater-list="group-b">
<div data-repeater-item class="mt-repeater-item">
<div class="mt-repeater-cell">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-2">
<div class="form-group">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" name="dosage_form" class="form-control typeahead-findings circle-input" placeholder="Dosage Form">
<label for="dosage_form">e.g. Tablet / Syrup / Capsule etc.</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-2">
<div class="form-group">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" name="brand_name" class="form-control typeahead-findings circle-input" placeholder="Brand / Generic Name">
<label for="brand_name">e.g. Dytor</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-2">
<div class="form-group">
<input class="form-control circle-input" nam="contents" type="text" placeholder="Contents" />
<span class="help-block"> e.g Paracetamol </span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-2">
<div class="form-group">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" name="dose" class="form-control typeahead-findings circle-input" placeholder="Dose">
<label for="dose">e.g. 20 mg / 20 ml</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-2">
<div class="form-group">
<input class="form-control circle-input" name="dose_regimen" type="text" placeholder="Dose Regimen" />
<span class="help-block"> e.g 1-1-1-1 </span>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-2">
<div class="form-group">
<div class="input-group">
<input type="text" name="therapy_duration" class="form-control typeahead-findings circle-input" placeholder="Therapy Duration">
<label for="therapy_duration">e.g. 1 Day / 1 Month etc.</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-1 col-sm-6 col-xs-6">
<i class="fa fa-plus"></i>
</div>
<div class="col-md-1 col-sm-6 col-xs-6">
<i class="fa fa-minus"></i>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<button id="getVal">Get Value</button>

For the first problem..
but this code only runs for the very first div on the later generated
dynamic divs it doesn't run
You can convert your jquery events into delegated events.. These allow you to catch events on DOM elements based on a selector, so when newer DOM elements are added these are caught too.
So -> $(".addData").on('click' ,function()
As a delegated event becomes -> $(document.body).on("click",".addData" ,function()
The second problem.
but how to get the values from the input field that are present near that button
This can be achieved by traversing up the DOM tree to a parent that surrounds the elements you want,. eg. .row or maybe mt-repeater-cell, as long as it's a DOM element that contains the elements you want to find. Here you can use jquery's closest selector, that will traverse up the tree until it finds the element your after.
So -> $(this).closest('.row').find('#dose_regimen').val()
The above will traverse up the DOM tree until it finds a .row class, we then find element with id dose_regimen etc,.. #dose_regimen and then finally get it's value with .val()

jquery Editing dynamically generated div content

I have the following code snippet:
(document)
.on("submit", ".edit-employee-form", function (e) {
e.preventDefault();
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: $(this).attr("action"),
method: $(this).attr("method"),
dataType: "html",
context: this,
data: $(this).serialize(),
success: function (response) {
p = $(this).parent();
p.prevAll('#first-name').html($(this).find("#first_name").val());
p.prevAll('#last-name').html($(this).find("#last_name").val());
p.prevAll('#email').html($(this).find("#email").val());
p.prevAll('#remain_case').html($(this).find("#remain_case").val());
$(this).parent().hide();
console.log('yay');
},
error: function (response, error) {
console.log("ERROR");
console.log(response);
console.log(error);
}
});
}
);
What it does is it submits a form to edit a particular employee (a list is displayed on the page) and then updates the html to reflect the changes the user submitted.
My problem is that some of the employees are also added via ajax calls, so their corresponding list elements are added dynamically to the html. I don't seem to be able to access their divs with id first-name, last-name, email etc. Any advice on how I can select divs which have been added dynamically?
I'm sorry for this being an image but I don't seem to be able to copy off the chrome console. The second element is added dynamically.
<div class="container firm-employees">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-3 table-header">Name</div>
<div class="col-lg-2 table-header">Surname</div>
<div class="col-lg-3 table-header">E-Mail</div>
<div class="col-lg-1 table-header">Cases</div>
<div class="col-lg-3 table-header">Options</div>
</div>
<div class="row manage-user-row">
<div class="col-lg-3" id="first-name">Gray</div>
<div class="col-lg-2" id="last-name">Sawyer</div>
<div class="col-lg-3" id="email">masakotypu#hotmail.com</div>
<div class="col-lg-1" id="remain_case">1</div>
<div class="col-lg-3">
<button type="button" id="205" class="btn btn-default btn-xs edit-user-button">
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-pencil" aria-hidden="true"></span>
Edit User
</button>
<a href="edit/22">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-xs">
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-user" aria-hidden="true"></span>
Edit Secretaries
</button>
</a>
</div>
<div id="ed-205" class="edit-employee-box">
<form id="ef-205" class="edit-employee-form" method="get" action="http://127.0.0.1/tlaf/forms/index.php/app_user/update/205">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-3">
<label for="first_name" class="form_label">First Name</label>
<input type="text" name="first_name" value="Gray" id="first_name" class="form-control">
</div>
<div class="col-lg-3">
<label for="last_name" class="form_label">Last Name</label>
<input type="text" name="last_name" value="Sawyer" id="last_name" class="form-control">
</div>
<div class="col-lg-3">
<label for="email" class="form_label">E-Mail</label>
<input type="text" name="email" value="masakotypu#hotmail.com" id="email" class="form-control">
</div>
<div class="col-lg-3">
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-3">
<label for="phone" class="form_label">Phone Number</label>
<input type="text" name="phone" value="+899-67-1063253" id="phone" class="form-control">
</div>
<div class="col-lg-3">
<label for="remain_case" class="form_label">Remaining Cases</label>
<input type="text" name="remain_case" value="1" id="remain_case" class="form-control">
</div>
<div class="col-lg-3">
</div>
<div class="col-lg-3">
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-lg-3">
<br>
<input type="submit" class="btn btn-success btn-md" value="Update User">
<a href="edit/22">
<button type="button" class="btn btn-info btn-md">
Reset Password
</button>
</a>
</div>
<div class="col-gl-3">
</div>
</div>
</form>
</div>
</div>
<div class="row manage-case-row"><div class="col-lg-3" id="first-name">Evan</div><div class="col-lg-2" id="last-name">Thompson</div><div class="col-lg-3" id="email">pubazof#hotmail.com</div><div class="col-lg-1" id="remain_case">2</div><div class="col-lg-3"><button type="button" id="206" class="btn btn-default btn-xs edit-user-button"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-pencil" aria-hidden="true"></span> Edit User</button> <button type="button" class="btn btn-default btn-xs"><span class="glyphicon glyphicon-user" aria-hidden="true"></span> Edit Secretaries</button></div></div><div class="edit-employee-box" id="ed-206"><form id="ef-206" class="edit-employee-form" method="get" action="http://127.0.0.1/tlaf/forms/index.php/app_user/update/206"><div class="row"><div class="col-lg-3"><label for="first_name" class="form_label">First Name</label><input type="text" name="first_name" value="Evan" id="first_name" class="form-control"></div><div class="col-lg-3"><label for="last_name" class="form_label">Last Name</label><input type="text" name="last_name" value="Thompson" id="last_name" class="form-control"></div><div class="col-lg-3"><label for="email" class="form_label">E-Mail</label><input type="text" name="email" value="pubazof#hotmail.com" id="email" class="form-control"></div><div class="col-lg-3"> </div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-lg-3"><label for="phone" class="form_label">Phone Number</label><input type="text" name="phone" value="+927-10-4155477" id="phone" class="form-control"></div><div class="col-lg-3"><label for="remain_case" class="form_label">Remaining Cases</label><input type="text" name="remain_case" value="2" id="remain_case" class="form-control"></div><div class="col-lg-3"></div><div class="col-lg-3"> </div></div><div class="row"><div class="col-lg-3"><br><input type="submit" class="btn btn-success btn-md" value="Update User"><button type="button" class="btn btn-info btn-md">Reset Password</button></div><div class="col-gl-3"></div></div></form></div></div>
</div>

Your code should be sure the order of finished ajax calls because it's too fast to follow with human eyes. If when appending ajax call is not completed, you cannot select those elements using even element id.
To do so, you should put ajax function calls in "success handler".
if Number one is success then Number two in the one's success handler, and Number three in two's success handler, and so on...
The simple solution is to use PROMISE to get all of ajax relative functions in order.
Please refer to the link : https://api.jquery.com/promise/
To check the element is successfully appended in time, check out the console with 'console.info or console.log" or something like that. if it's length is 0, then the appending ajax call is not yet completed.

activeform variable not updating

I have a Jquery function to activate and deactivate forms based off the current form. When I click on the submit button I can get the value of the activeform on the page load if I have it set to ID, but nothing off the second form. When I set it to class it doesn't seem to load any at all and I get no alert back when I click the submit. My jquery is as such:
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
var activeform = "register";
$("#loginlink").click(function(e) {
var activeform = "login";
$("#login").show("blind", 1000);
$("#register").hide("blind", 1000);
})
$("#registerlink").click(function(e) {
var activeform = "register";
$("#register").show("blind", 1000);
$("#login").hide("blind", 1000);
})
$(".submit").click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
alert(activeform);
});
});
</script>
And the code for my forms:
<p>
<form id="register">
<div class='row'>
<div class="col-xs-4"></div>
<div class="col-xs-4">
<label for username><i class="fa fa-user"></i> Username</label>
<input class="form-control" type="text" id="username"></div>
<div class="col-xs-4"></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-4"></div>
<div class="col-xs-4">
<label for password><i class="fa fa-key"></i> Password</label>
<input class="form-control" type="password" id="password"></div>
<div class="col-xs-4"></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-4"></div>
<div class="col-xs-4">
<label for email><i class="fa fa-envelope"></i> Email</label>
<input class="form-control" type="text" id="email"></div>
<div class="col-xs-4"><i class="fa fa-info-circle" title="You may be notified of delayed or denied payments." data-toggle="tooltip"></i></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-4"></div>
<div class="col-xs-4">
<label for submit><i class="fa fa-info" data-toggle="tooltip" title="By Registering you Agree to be Bound by our Terms of Service"></i></label>
<button type="button" class="btn btn-success form-control" class="submit">Register</button></div>
<div class="col-xs-4"></div>
</div>
</form>
<form id="login" style="display:none;">
<div class='row'>
<div class="col-xs-4"></div>
<div class="col-xs-4">
<label for username><i class="fa fa-user"></i> Username</label>
<input class="form-control" type="text" id="username"></div>
<div class="col-xs-4"></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-4"></div>
<div class="col-xs-4">
<label for password><i class="fa fa-key"></i> Password</label>
<input class="form-control" type="password" id="password"></div>
<div class="col-xs-4"></div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-xs-4"></div>
<div class="col-xs-4">
<br />
<button type="button" class="btn btn-success form-control" class="submit">Login</button></div>
<div class="col-xs-4"></div>
</div>
</form>
</p>
Login | Register
Last but not least. Here's a fiddle. :)
https://jsfiddle.net/rm6j5da9/2/

You were recreating the activeform variable every time in the click event. remove the var keyword. you already declared that as a global variable inside the document ready scope.
$(function(){
var activeform = "register";
$("#loginlink").click(function(e) {
activeform = "login";
$("#login").show("blind", 1000);
$("#register").hide("blind", 1000);
});
$("#registerlink").click(function(e) {
activeform = "register";
$("#register").show("blind", 1000);
$("#login").hide("blind", 1000);
});
$(".submit").click(function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
alert(activeform);
});
});
Also you need to make sure that you have the submit css class on both the login and register buttons
Here is a working sample

JQuery .click function only works after second click if I close a modal

i have a page where I have two buttons, one that opens a modal, and another one that only submits.
I have a .click event on the second button. If i go on the page and click the second button the click event goes fine, BUT if i first open the modal, close it and then i hit the second button, the first time does nothing and the second time it fires the .click event.
I would like to always fire the click event.
this is my code
$(document).ready(function(){
var focusout = false;
$(".prueba").click(function () {
if (focusout == false) {
focusout = true;
return;
}
});
var validator =$('#form1').validate(
{
ignore: "",
rules: {
parametros: {
required: function() { return focusout == true; },
},
terminos: {
required: function() { return focusout == true; },
}
},
highlight: function(element) {
$(element).closest('.grupo').addClass('has-error');
},
unhighlight: function(element) {
$(element).closest('.grupo').removeClass('has-error');
}
});
$(".cancel").click(function() {
validator.resetForm();
});
}); // end document.ready
button 1:
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" name="nueva_articulo"><i class="icon-plus"></i> Nuevo Item</button>
button 2:
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary prueba" name="buscar">Buscar</button>
full form:
<form action="" method="post" id="form1" enctype="multipart/form-data">
<p>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" name="nueva_articulo"><i class="icon-plus"></i> Nuevo Item</button>
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" name="carga_masiva"><i class="icon-arrow-up"></i> Carga Masiva</button>
</p>
<br>
<div class="col-lg-1 grupo">
</div>
<div class="col-lg-10 grupo">
<div class="panel panel-default pagination-centered">
<div class="panel-heading">Búsqueda en Catálogo</div>
<div class="panel-body">
<div class="form-group ">
<div class="col-lg-6 grupo">
<input type="text" class="form-control " id="terminos" name="terminos" placeholder="Términos de búsqueda">
</div>
<div class="col-lg-6 grupo">
<select id="e1" name="parametros" style=" width:80%">
<option></option>
<option value="1" >Autor</option>
<option value="2" >Título</option>
</select>
</div>
</div>
<br> <br>
<div style="text-align:center">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary prueba" name="buscar">Buscar</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-lg-1 grupo">
</div>
<!-- Modal -->
<div class="modal fade" id="myModal" name="myModal" data-backdrop="static" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myModalLabel" aria-hidden="true">
<div class="modal-dialog modal-wide">
<div class="modal-content">
<div class="modal-header">
<button type="submit" class="close cancel" data-dismiss="modal" aria-hidden="true">×</button>
{if isset($smarty.post.nueva_articulo) }
<h4 class="modal-title">Nueva Articulo</h4>
{/if} </div>
<div class="modal-body">
{if isset($smarty.post.nueva_articulo) }
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-lg-12 grupo">
<label for="art_titulo" class="control-label">Título</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control input-sm" name="art_titulo">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-lg-12 grupo">
<label for="art_enlace" class="control-label">Enlace</label>
<input type="text" class="form-control input-sm" name="art_enlace">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-lg-12 grupo">
<label for="aut_id" class="control-label">Autor(es)</label>
<input type='hidden' id='e13' name="autores" style='width:100%'/>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-lg-12 grupo">
<label for="art_contenido" class="control-label">Contenido</label>
<textarea class="form-control input-sm" name="art_contenido" rows="5" ></textarea>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-lg-12 grupo">
<label for="etiquetas" class="control-label">Etiquetas</label>
<input type="text" id="e12" name="etiquetas" style="width:100%">
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-lg-12 grupo">
<label for="foto" class="control-label">Imagen</label>
<div class="input-group">
<span class="input-group-btn">
<span class="btn btn-default btn-file">
Buscar… <input type="file" name="foto">
</span>
</span>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="nombre" readonly="">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
<div class="col-lg-12 grupo">
<div class="checkbox">
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="rating" value="si"> Habilitar Rating y Reviews
</label>
</div>
<div class="checkbox">
<label>
<input type="checkbox" name="redes" value="si"> Habilitar Compatir en Redes Sociales
</label>
</div>
</div>
</div>
{/if}
</div>
<div class="modal-footer">
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-default cancel" data-dismiss="modal" name="cerrar">Cerrar</button>
{if isset($smarty.post.nueva_articulo) }
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary" name="insertar_articulo">Guardar Cambios</button>
{/if}
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- /.modal-content -->
</div>
<!-- /.modal-dialog -->
<!-- /.modal -->
</form>

They are both of type submit. You should only have 1 submit button on a form
Button 1 could just be a button
<button class="btn btn-primary" name="nueva_articulo"><i class="icon-plus"></i> Nuevo Item</button>

If you want, you can create a Form Object in javascript and generate it dynamically. That will do that you don't need to depend of the submit and forms, just fill the form object with the inputs that you want programatically (that even accept files or images).
But anyway, it seems that you have more than one click events on the same button if the one you want is triggering at the second attempt. You could try to play with event.preventDefault or $.unbind.
As you said taht you need to submit the inputs of the modal, try to place the content of the modal inside the tag and remove the submit type of one of the buttons.