Form submit with AJAX passing form data to PHP without page refresh

Question

Can anyone tell me why this bit of code isn\'t working?

Answer 1

Here is a nice plugin for jQuery that submits forms via ajax:

http://malsup.com/jquery/form/

its as simple as:

It uses the forms action for the post location. Not that you can't achieve this with your own code but this plugin has worked very nicely for me!