ah, sweet... thank you! Bart
On Sep 22, 12:57 pm, Mike Alsup <mal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > How do I pass a variable as a key in a key/value pair in Ajax? > > For example, this does NOT work: > > > function DoAjaxCall(columnname, value) { > > $.post(_callerquery, { > > columnname: value > > }, function(data, textStatus) { > > alert(data+ ' '+ textStatus); > > }, 'json'); > > > } > > > DoAjaxCall('LASTNAME', 'Jackson'); > > > It keeps posting the columnname as "columnname" instead of > > "LASTNAME"); > > function DoAjaxCall(columnname, value) { > var params = {}; > params[columnname] = value; > $.post(_callerquery, params, function(data, textStatus) { > alert(data+ ' '+ textStatus); > }, 'json'); > > > > }