Here is my complete solution:
jQuery('#myForm').live('submit',function(event) {
$.ajax({
url: 'one.php',
type: 'POST',
dataType: 'json',
data: $('#myForm').serialize(),
success: function( data ) {
for(var id in data) {
jQuery('#' + id).html(data[id]);
}
}
});
return false;
});
Submitting the form is easy:
$j('#myForm').submit();
However that will post back the entire page.
A post via an Ajax call is easy too:
$j.ajax({
type: 'POST',
url: 'one.php',
data: {
myText: $j('#myText').val(),
myButton: $j('#myButton').val()
},
success: function(response, textStatus, XMLHttpRequest) {
$j('div.ajax').html(response);
}
});
If you then want to do something with the result you have two options - you can either explicitly set the success function (which I've done above) or you can use the load helper method:
$j('div.ajax').load('one.php', data);
Unfortunately there's one messy bit that you're stuck with: populating that data object with the form variables to post.
However it should be a fairly simple loop.
Have a look at the $.ajaxSubmit function in the jQuery Form Plugin. Should be as simple as
$('#myForm').ajaxSubmit();
You may also want to bind to the form submit event so that all submissions go via AJAX, as the example on the linked page shows.
You can submit the form with jQuery's $.ajax method like this:
$.ajax({
url: 'one.php',
type: 'POST',
data: $('#myForm').serialize(),
success:function(data){
alert(data);
}
});