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    copied!<p>I have a form in JSP in the following manner : </p> <pre><code>&lt;form id="provision-field" method="post" action="${pageContext.request.contextPath}/myServlet"&gt; &lt;fieldset&gt; &lt;ol class="fields"&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;label for="field1"&gt;field1&lt;/label&gt; &lt;input type="text" id="field1" " value="&lt;%= field1 %&gt;" /&gt; &lt;span class="description"&gt; &lt;span class="optional"&gt;Optional&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/fieldset&gt; &lt;div class="actions"&gt; &lt;button type="submit" name="Submit"&gt; Submit form &lt;/button&gt; &lt;a href="" class="close-dialog"&gt;Cancel&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/form&gt; </code></pre> <p>I have a js snippet on click of the submit button does the following</p> <pre><code>var field = document.getElementById("field1").value; $.ajax({ url: '${pageContext.request.contextPath}/myServlet' type: 'POST', data: field, dataType: "html", success: function(html) { alert("Success"); }, error: function(error){ alert("ERROR"); } }); </code></pre> <p>When I just use the form element (ie take out the js code) , I can reach my servlet but none of my form parameters are passed . when I try using the js code , the ajax request does not work . could someone point to me how this should be correctly done .</p> <p>The servlet code is :</p> <pre><code>protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException { logger.info("Inside the post function"); logger.info(request.getParameter("data"); } </code></pre>
 

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