Question

I wrote this script to for a contact form on my website, everything works however instead of storing the data in me database all is get is
[object HTMLCollection] c
an anyone tell me what this is?
or what is going wrong? i have had a look on google but i cant find much information on it.

<script type="text/javascript">

    //when the button is clicked



    $(document).ready(function() {

    $("#button").click(function() {



        $('.small').hide();



              var name = $("input#name").val();

            if (name == "") {

          $("span#name").show();

          return false;

        }



              var name = $("input#email").val();

            if (name == "") {

          $("span#email").show();

          return false;

        }



              var name = $("input#subject").val();

            if (name == "") {

          $("span#subject").show();

          return false;

        }



             var name = $("textarea#message").val();

            if (name == "") {

          $("span#message").show();

          return false;

        }







        var dataString = 'name='+ name + '&email=' + email + '&subject=' + subject + '&message=' + message;



            $.ajax({

          type: "POST",

          url: "/scripts/send_message.php",

          data: dataString,



          });

    $("#messagearea").load("console/new_message_profile.php?sent=1");

    });

    });

    </script>

Answer 1

As @Namit mentioned, you use name as a variable everywhere. Building your string, email, subject and message are uninitialised.

They should give you an undefined – but no, due to a weird Internet Explorer behaviour (see Is there a spec that the id of elements should be made global variable?) these variables hold DOM elements. As you seem to have multiple elements with the same id (NEVER DO THAT), here a <span> and an <input>, the variables even seem to hold HTMLCollection objects. Which are casted to the string [object HTMLCollection], when you concat them with other strings.