Question

I’m not even sure if this is possible, but I need to send POST data to a page via a user-clicked link. Can this be done?

To be clear, I do not want the data returned to the current page; the target page should load in the browser just as though the user had submitted a form, but I need to send the post data without a form, if possible

Answer 1

What do you mean without a form? Can the form be “invisible” to the user? If so, you could do something like:

$("a.post").click(function (e) {
    e.preventDefault();

    $("<form action='"+this.href+"' method='post'></form>").submit();
});

Obviously it could be done many different ways, but you get the idea.

It would be just like a form with the POST parameters intact in the request just in case you use that information at the server when serving up that page.