Thanks , that totally worked.
On Oct 28, 4:06 am, James Dempster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> you where nearly there formdata is a jQuery object if you want in html
> contents of that object try...
> formdata = $('div#htm_snippet').html();
>
> /James
>
> On Oct 28, 10:24 am, Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > So here's what I'd like to do:
>
> > on form submission, send some data from a form input and also a
> > snippet of html to a php script for further processing...
>
> > so far I have something like:
>
> > formdata = $('div#htm_snippet');
>
> > $('form').submit(function(){
> > $.post(url, {snippet: formdata}, function(data){
> > $('body').append(data);
> > });
>
> > My php script at the moment just reads the $_POST variable and spits
> > it back out, but all it returns is
> > [object Object]
>
> > so where am I going wrong?
>
> > --thanks --