It is because you get rid of the form when you replace the message inside
#form before calling serialize(). Move this line
$("#form").html('Please wait...');
below everything else, and serialize() will no longer return empty.
Ted
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 2:54 PM, robotwink <robotw...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I tried for hours and no luck. Here's my code:
>
> http://stikked.com/view/4d9c1242
>
> I would really appreciate if anyone can tell me why $
> ("#contact_form").serialize() is always returning empty string.
>
> On Jul 16, 2:26 pm, James <james.gp....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Could you define "not working"?
> >
> > Are there any error messages?
> > Is $("#contact_form").serialize() not giving the right values?
> > Is the AJAX request not being sent?
> > Is there no response coming back from the AJAX request?
> >
> > Try adding an 'error' callback also to see if it gets called.
> >
> > On Jul 15, 6:24 pm,robotwink<robotw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi guys,
> >
> > > I need to send the whole form to the server for processing. I have
> > > this now, which is not working:
> >
> > > $.ajax({
> > > type: "POST",
> > > url: "file.php",
> > > data: $("#contact_form").serialize(),
> > > success: function(data){
> > > alert('ok');
> > > }
> > > });
> >
> > > Please let me what's wrong and how to fix it. Thanks.
>
