jQuery AJAX submit form

You can use the ajaxForm/ajaxSubmit functions from Ajax Form Plugin or the jQuery serialize function.

AjaxForm:

$("#theForm").ajaxForm({url: 'server.php', type: 'post'})

or

$("#theForm").ajaxSubmit({url: 'server.php', type: 'post'})

ajaxForm will send when the submit button is pressed. ajaxSubmit sends immediately.

Serialize:

$.get('server.php?' + $('#theForm').serialize())

$.post('server.php', $('#theForm').serialize())

AJAX serialization documentation is here.

I really liked this answer by superluminary and especially the way he wrapped is solution in a jQuery plugin. So thanks to superluminary for a very useful answer. In my case, though, I wanted a plugin that would allow me to define the success and error event handlers by means of options when the plugin is initialized.

So here is what I came up with:

;(function(defaults, $, undefined) {
    var getSubmitHandler = function(onsubmit, success, error) {
        return function(event) {
            if (typeof onsubmit === 'function') {
                onsubmit.call(this, event);
            }
            var form = $(this);
            $.ajax({
                type: form.attr('method'),
                url: form.attr('action'),
                data: form.serialize()
            }).done(function() {
                if (typeof success === 'function') {
                    success.apply(this, arguments);
                }
            }).fail(function() {
                if (typeof error === 'function') {
                    error.apply(this, arguments);
                }
            });
            event.preventDefault();
        };
    };
    $.fn.extend({
        // Usage:
        // jQuery(selector).ajaxForm({ 
        //                              onsubmit:function() {},
        //                              success:function() {}, 
        //                              error: function() {} 
        //                           });
        ajaxForm : function(options) {
            options = $.extend({}, defaults, options);
            return $(this).each(function() {
                $(this).submit(getSubmitHandler(options['onsubmit'], options['success'], options['error']));
            });
        }
    });
})({}, jQuery);

This plugin allows me to very easily "ajaxify" html forms on the page and provide onsubmit, success and error event handlers for implementing feedback to the user of the status of the form submit. This allowed the plugin to be used as follows:

 $('form').ajaxForm({
      onsubmit: function(event) {
          // User submitted the form
      },
      success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
          // The form was successfully submitted
      },
      error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
          // The submit action failed
      }
 });

Note that the success and error event handlers receive the same arguments that you would receive from the corresponding events of the jQuery ajax method.

jQuery AJAX submit form, is nothing but submit a form using form ID when you click on a button

Please follow steps

Step 1 - Form tag must have an ID field

<form method="post" class="form-horizontal" action="test/user/add" id="submitForm">
.....
</form>

Button which you are going to click

<button>Save</button>

Step 2 - submit event is in jQuery which helps to submit a form. in below code we are preparing JSON request from HTML element name.

$("#submitForm").submit(function(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    var frm = $("#submitForm");
    var data = {};
    $.each(this, function(i, v){
        var input = $(v);
        data[input.attr("name")] = input.val();
        delete data["undefined"];
    });
    $.ajax({
        contentType:"application/json; charset=utf-8",
        type:frm.attr("method"),
        url:frm.attr("action"),
        dataType:'json',
        data:JSON.stringify(data),
        success:function(data) {
            alert(data.message);
        }
    });
});

for live demo click on below link

How to submit a Form using jQuery AJAX?

I know this is a jQuery related question, but now days with JS ES6 things are much easier. Since there is no pure javascript answer, I thought I could add a simple pure javascript solution to this, which in my opinion is much cleaner, by using the fetch() API. This a modern way to implements network requests. In your case, since you already have a form element we can simply use it to build our request.

const form = document.forms["orderproductForm"];
const formInputs = form.getElementsByTagName("input"); 
let formData = new FormData(); 
for (let input of formInputs) {
    formData.append(input.name, input.value); 
}

fetch(form.action,
    {
        method: form.method,
        body: formData
    })
    .then(response => response.json())
    .then(data => console.log(data))
    .catch(error => console.log(error.message))
    .finally(() => console.log("Done"));

Try

fetch(form.action,{method:'post', body: new FormData(form)});

function send(e,form) {
  fetch(form.action,{method:'post', body: new FormData(form)});

  console.log('We submit form asynchronously (AJAX)');
  e.preventDefault();
}

<form method="POST" action="myapi/send" onsubmit="send(event,this)" name="orderproductForm">
    <input hidden name="csrfToken" value="$0meh@$h">
    <input name="email" value="aa@bb.com">
    <input name="phone" value="123-456-666">
    <input type="submit">    
</form>

Look on Chrome Console > Network after/before 'submit'

consider using closest

$('table+table form').closest('tr').filter(':not(:last-child)').submit(function (ev, frm) {
        frm = $(ev.target).closest('form');
        $.ajax({
            type: frm.attr('method'),
            url: frm.attr('action'),
            data: frm.serialize(),
            success: function (data) {
                alert(data);
            }
        })
        ev.preventDefault();
    });

I find it surprising that no one mentions data as an object. For me it's the cleanest and easiest way to pass data:

$('form#foo').submit(function () {
    $.ajax({
        url: 'http://foo.bar/some-ajax-script',
        type: 'POST',
        dataType: 'json',
        data: {
            'foo': 'some-foo-value',
            'bar': $('#bar').val()
        }
    }).always(function (response) {
        console.log(response);
    });

    return false;
});

Then, in the backend:

// Example in PHP
$_POST['foo'] // some-foo-value
$_POST['bar'] // value in #bar

This is not the answer to OP's question,
but in case if you can't use static form DOM, you can also try like this.

var $form = $('<form/>').append(
    $('<input/>', {name: 'username'}).val('John Doe'),
    $('<input/>', {name: 'user_id'}).val('john.1234')
);

$.ajax({
    url: 'api/user/search',
    type: 'POST',
    contentType: 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
    data: $form.serialize(),
    success: function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) {
        console.info(data);
    },
    error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
        var errorMessage = jqXHR.responseText;
        if (errorMessage.length > 0) {
            alert(errorMessage);
        }
    }
});

JavaScript

(function ($) {
    var form= $('#add-form'),
      input = $('#exampleFormControlTextarea1');


   form.submit(function(event) {

       event.preventDefault(); 

       var req = $.ajax({
           url: form.attr('action'),
           type: 'POST',
           data: form.serialize()
       });
    req.done(function(data) {
       if (data === 'success') {
           var li = $('<li class="list-group-item">'+ input.val() +'</li>');
            li.hide()
                .appendTo('.list-group')
                .fadeIn();
            $('input[type="text"],textarea').val('');
        }
   });
});


}(jQuery));

HTML

    <ul class="list-group col-sm-6 float-left">
            <?php
            foreach ($data as $item) {
                echo '<li class="list-group-item">'.$item.'</li>';
            }
            ?>
        </ul>

        <form id="add-form" class="col-sm-6 float-right" action="_inc/add-new.php" method="post">
            <p class="form-group">
                <textarea class="form-control" name="message" id="exampleFormControlTextarea1" rows="3" placeholder="Is there something new?"></textarea>
            </p>
            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-danger">Add new item</button>
        </form>

There's also the submit event, which can be triggered like this $("#form_id").submit(). You'd use this method if the form is well represented in HTML already. You'd just read in the page, populate the form inputs with stuff, then call .submit(). It'll use the method and action defined in the form's declaration, so you don't need to copy it into your javascript.

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