Prevent redirection when form is submitted

Question

What I want is to submit a form in the background, so that it doesn't redirect to the form "action." Is there a clean way to do this, without using external libraries like jQuery?

You are looking for ajax. Check this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8567114/how-to-make-an-ajax-call-without-jquery — Dekel, Dec 19 '16 at 22:30

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

No. If you submit a form, you will redirect.

What you can do, however, is to "serialize" the form, get the URL (I'm assuming GET), and request the server using XmlHttpRequest (Ajax).

There's a question on SO about serializing a form without jQuery: how to serialize a form without jQuery?

Also, this one on how to use XMLHttpRequest: How to get the response of XMLHttpRequest?

jQuery kind of makes both tasks easier, though

Prevent redirection when form is submitted

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