How can I send POST data and navigate with JQuery?

Question

On my blog I have a lot of

 blocks containing code snippets.


What I want to do is add a .click() handler to all the 

        

Answer 1

Not sure I would handle it this way, probably I would simply pop up a dialog with the code rather than leave the page, but you could handle this by building a form using javascript then triggering a submit on that form instead of using AJAX.

Using dialogs with jQuery UI:

 $('pre').on('click', function() {
      $('
' + $(this).text() + '
').dialog({
          ... set up dialog parameters ...
      });
 });

Build a form

 $('pre').on('click', function() {
      var text = $(this).text();
      $('
')
          .appendTo('body');
      $('[name="code"]').val(text);
      $('.hidden-form').submit();
 });