how to handle response contents by AJAX

Question

for me it seems impossible but expecting clarification on it. i am sending a request as follow :

 <form action="/name" method="get">
     <input type="text" />
     <input type="submit" />
  </form>

Now action class at server side manipulates & send the response to client, can i handle this response by ajax somehow ??

Answer 1

Yes, but you have to submit it via ajax (XmlHttpRequest) in order to be able to get the response that way.

Using jQuery makes this simple:

$.post("/name", {param:param}, function(data) {

});

In that example you should pass manually each form field as param. In case of bigger forms this is not that good. So you can use serialize():

$.post($("#yourForm").attr("action"),
       $("#yourForm").serialize(),
       responseHandlerFunction);