Question

This is really frustrating I would appreciate some help with this. I have a div, called comments and a form inside of that div. What I want to do is post a form to the current page and have it load inside of the div without reloading the entire thing. Here is my current code:

<div id="comments">
<form action="#" method="post" onsubmit="return false;" >
<input type="hidden" name="txtname" value="test">
<textarea id="wysiwyg" name="wysiwyg" rows="5" cols="50"></textarea>
<input type="submit" name="post" id="post" value="Submit">
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
EDIT: Read edit below for current code
</script>        
</div>

When I submit, the alert fires, but the page does not load. It works fine if I make the event as follows:

$("#comments").load("comments.asp");

It’s not liking the posting of data. I have used .load before but never to post data. I got the above code from these very same forums.

I’m honestly not sure of the purpose of ‘name’ and ‘tel’ – do I refer to those variables or the form variable names when processing the code? This is in ASP classic.

What’s wrong with the above code, how can I get it to send data from the forum via POST? Thanks!

EDIT:
I am now using the following code:

$("#post").submit(function(event){
    var $form = $(this),
        $inputs = $form.find("input, select, button, textarea"),
        serializedData = $form.serialize();
    $inputs.attr("disabled", "disabled");

    $.ajax({
        url: "/comments.asp",
        type: "post",
        data: serializedData,
        success: function(response, textStatus, jqXHR){
            console.log("comment posted");
        },
        error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown){
            console.log(

                textStatus, errorThrown
            );
        },
        complete: function(){
            // enable the inputs
            $inputs.removeAttr("disabled");
        }
    });

    event.preventDefault();
});

And now it’s using properly getting the form handled…however it goes to comments.asp. How can I make all the action happen in a certain div (comments div?)

Answer 1

It seems to me you are blending a bunch of different techniques in a way that is not entirely coherent.

$.post is a shortened version of $.ajax (see here).

$.load takes a url and sticks it into a <div> or other DOM Element (see here).

If I understand it correctly (and I may not!), you’re not really wanting to load the form, but put values into the form fields. $.load is an odd way to do this. (It may work, but I do it another way.)

If you’re using $(#…).submit, you can also leave out a whole bunch of stuff in your form. The following should work fine.

<form id="form_id">
...
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

My method is: (1) have a hardcoded HTML form (or build it by AJAX), (2) get the values from the DB (or wherever) using $.post (or $.ajax), (3) stick the values into the form using .val() (or equivalent – whatever is right for the input type) and the DOM id of that input, and then (4) use .submit (in a manner similar to yours). You will need to add preventDefault as the others have suggested.

You’re also muddying the waters using #post as the DOM id. You really want to give the form itself the ID, and then use $(#form_id).submit(… I can’t test it now, but having the submit on the input field may cause some grief. The official example attaches the .submit to the form id.

I’m also not sure the <div> with id ‘comments’ really does much. I have a container id like your ‘comments’, but that’s because I build forms by AJAX and stick them into the container. If you don’t need to do that, the id ‘comments’ is unnecessary to the whole procedure.