TextArea not sending data on Submit

Question

I am using Ajax to post my data, while using inspect elemet, I can see the post data from all other fields, but text area field comes empty, so the data fails to be saved to the database.

 function addblog() {

        save_method = 'add';

        url = "<?php echo site_url('index.php/blog/post_new_blog')?>";

        $.ajax({
             url: url,
             type: "POST",
             data: $('#addblog').serialize(),
             dataType: "json",
             success: function (data) {
                  alert('Saved');
             },
             error: function (jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown) {
                    alert('Error adding / update data');
       }
   });
}

HTML:

    <div id="editor-one" class="editor-wrapper"></div>
    <textarea  id="descr" class="text" name="desc" style="display:none;"></textarea>

PHP:

    public function post_new_blog()
{
    $data = array(
        'blog_title' => $this->input->post('title', true),
        'blog_content' => $this->input->post('desc', true),
        'blog_tags' => $this->input->post('tags', true),
    );

    $insert = $this->main_model->save_new_posts($data);

    echo json_encode(array("status" => TRUE));
 }

change style to `style="visibility:hidden;position:absolute;"`. It should work. for similar question look [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8318428/submit-form-fields-inside-displaynone-element) — jagad89, May 21 '17 at 09:18
@manian Yeah, its not supposed to have that, lemme edit. I think the site did the spacing, lemme correct — Lexie, May 21 '17 at 09:21
What's your purpose ? Why you wanted to textarea not visible on page ? — jagad89, May 21 '17 at 09:22
@jagad89 Form data, other fields post their data, but data from textarea comes empty — Lexie, May 21 '17 at 09:23
Yes.. because its hidden and empty..for just time being remove all style.. type something in textarea and then submit.. you will get data `` — jagad89, May 21 '17 at 09:24
@RST : it seems not to be an issue anymore in modern browser (>2016). Fields are submitted even if display is set to `none`. Only `disabled` won't be. — OldPadawan, May 21 '17 at 17:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 21 '17 at 10:11

You are sending data as follows:

data: $('#addblog').serialize(),

does your

<textarea  id="descr" class="text" name="desc" style="display:none;"></textarea>

inside html element with id addblog?

Meanwhile, i didn't understand why you set display to none for textarea?

TextArea not sending data on Submit

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