Using post method in javascript

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I would like to send text inside textarea to php using post method. I created a button, and I can extract the text from the textarea into a variable.

How can I pass the variable to php using POST and NOT using ajax or other libraries? Is there a simple way?

If not, how does ajax do it?

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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Do you have to use javascript? If you don't want AJAX, then why not just use a standard HTML form submission? You can setup everything using javascript to build the HTML form and the browser will do the submission for you?

JavaScript post request like a form submit

If it must be javascript, then it might be simplest to use JQuery to make an AJAX call.

http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/ajax_post.asp

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answered Aug 29 '14 at 05:57

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Basically my question is: If AJAX/JQuery can do it, how do they POST? I cannot find a javascript call to POST. – Makketronix Sep 04 '14 at 02:20
Added links to build an HTML form, and to use JQuery. – Daniel Scott Sep 04 '14 at 06:16

Using post method in javascript

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