Question

I have a very simple form:

<form id="toBeTranslatedForm" action="actionpage.php" method="POST" >
        <textarea name="userInput" id="toBeTranslatedTextArea"></textarea>
        <select id="translationOptions">//dynamically filled</select>
        <input type="submit" value="Translate" />
</form>

Using Jquery I am detecting whether the form has been submitted:

function outputTranslated()
{
    $('#toBeTranslatedForm').submit(function() {
        //do stuff
    });
}

How do I get the text typed in the text area and the option selected in the select box from the form above? Ideally I would like to put them into an array.

Answer 1

Here is how you can get value:

function outputTranslated() {
    $('#toBeTranslatedForm').submit(function() {
       var textareaval = $('#userInput').val();
       alert(textareaval);
    });
}

You can do the same for selection box by adding this line after the textareaval variable definition in the code above:

var selectval = $('#translationOptions').val();

Then, you can either use serialise, or you can put it into an array manually:

var a = [textareaval,selectval];