you where nearly there formdata is a jQuery object if you want in html
contents of that object try...
formdata = $('div#htm_snippet').html();
/James
On Oct 28, 10:24 am, Moody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So here's what I'd like to do:
>
> on form submission, send some data from a form input and also a
> snippet of html to a php script for further processing...
>
> so far I have something like:
>
> formdata = $('div#htm_snippet');
>
> $('form').submit(function(){
> $.post(url, {snippet: formdata}, function(data){
> $('body').append(data);
> });
>
> My php script at the moment just reads the $_POST variable and spits
> it back out, but all it returns is
> [object Object]
>
> so where am I going wrong?
>
> --thanks --
