Button value is null

Button value is null

Hi, I am using JQuery, Ajax and Struts for a web application. I am trying to submit when a button clicked. I have 4 tabs in one page. I placed 4 buttons on each tab and I want to submit the whole form when user clicked on a button through Ajax. When I submit form, I am getting values for all the form fields except button1 value as null in the form bean. Do I have any alternative to track what button clicked while submitting the whole form?  Is there any way I can pass additional parameter along with submitting whole form in ajax? Thank you!

 

$('[name=button1]').click(function(){

           

      $.ajax({

           type: "POST",

           url: "/NB/AjaxSubmit.do",

           data: $('form[name=ajaxForm]').serialize(), // serializes the form's elements.

           success: function(data)

           {

               alert(data); // show response from the php script.

           }

         });

 

      return false; // avoid to execute the actual submit of the form.

     

      });

 

 

<html:button property="button1"  value ="Submit"></html:button>