Setting submit value in jQuery submit

Question

I want to use jQuery to submit my form and i can do that like so

  $('#myform_id').submit();

and thats all good but normally someone clicks a submit button than that submit button has a value so when I do the submit via jQuery I also need to set a submit value how do i do that ?

EDIT

as noted by some answers I could do this by simulating a user click but I don't want to do that I want to pass the submit value when I use the .submit() command if that is possible

ultimately the submit using ajax form

** Clarifying **

ok so I have jQuery setup to use jquery validate and has a submit handler like so

$("#myform_id").validate({
    submitHandler: function() {
        run_ajax(obj);
    }
});

then that calls I function i call run_ajax passing and object containing information about what type of ajax i want and what have you.

and ultimately runs this

obj.formitem.ajaxSubmit({
    dataType:'json',
    data: obj.pdata,
});

where

  obj.formitem == $('#myform_id');

so when the form is submit all that happens all good.

so I load the page with this form into jquery dialog and I want them to be able to click a button in the dialog that triggers the form submit and also tells the form what type of submit was requested

hopefully this is clear now sorry for confusion

Setting submit value in jQuery submit

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