How to post a form with many fields with jQuery?

Question

Though $.ajax() can be used to do ajax things, I don\'t think its fit for posting values of a big form.

How would you post a big form (many fields) with

Answer 1

You probably want to use serialize if you don't want to manually deal with each element.

$.ajax({
   type: "POST",
   url: "form.php",
   data: $("#form_id").serialize()
   success: function(msg) {
     alert("Form Submitted: " + msg);
   }
 });