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    copied!<p>I'm going to start off that I'm not really experienced in web development, so excuse if this question sound rather dumb or the solution is obvious but I can't seem to find it on this site or google. Basically I have an HTML form and want to post data to a PHP script which mails the data to a specific email address. This is the HTML code:</p> <pre><code>&lt;form id="contact-form" name="contactform" action=""&gt; &lt;fieldset&gt; &lt;p class="contact-name"&gt; &lt;input id="name" type="text" placeholder="Full Name" value="" name="name"/&gt; &lt;label class="error" for="name" id="name_error"&gt;This field is required.&lt;/label&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="contact-email"&gt; &lt;input id="email" type="text" placeholder="Email Address" value="" name="email"/&gt; &lt;label class="error" for="email" id="email_error"&gt;This field is required.&lt;/label&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="contact-message"&gt; &lt;textarea id="message" placeholder="Your Message" name="message" rows="15" cols="40"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; &lt;label class="error" for="message" id="message_error"&gt;This field is required.&lt;/label&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class="contact-submit"&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="Submit" id="submit_button" class="button"&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/fieldset&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>This is the jQuery &amp; Ajax code to validate the data:</p> <pre><code>$(document).ready(function() { $('.error').hide(); $(".button").click(function() { //validate process var name = $("input#name").val(); if (name == "") { $("label#name_error").show(); $("input#name").focus(); return false; } var email = $("input#email").val(); if (email == "") { $("label#email_error").show(); $("input#email").focus(); return false; } var message = $("textarea#message").val(); if (message == "") { $("label#message_error").show(); $("textarea#message").focus(); return false; } }); var dataString = 'name='+ name + '&amp;email=' + email + '&amp;message=' + message; $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "_include/php/contact.php", data: dataString, }); return false; }); </code></pre> <p>The problem that occurs here is not the fact that the JS code doesn't run but the post adds the parameters to the current link like: http//website.com/index.html?name=test&amp;email=email&amp;message=msg</p> <p>But I need it to add the parameters to my PHP file which is located at _include/php/contact.php</p> <p>Update: So I've tried various answers and thanks for the great replies but I'm still stuck. I can choose to set the action of the form to the PHP file but that means that my page is refreshed and that is something that I want to avoid. The other js scripts didn't seem to change the fact that the parameters are added to the wrong link..</p>
 

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