AJAX Form is submitting to itself?

Question

I don\'t know what is going on here tonight, but I can\'t seem to get AJAX working. When the form is submitted, it refreshes the page with the values in the URL. I\'m using a va

Answer 1

you need to cancel the default behaviour of submit button

$(".button").click(function(e) {
            e.preventDefault();
            //rest of your code here
            var dataString = "fname=" + $("#firstName").val();
            alert(dataString);
            $.ajax({