title: How do you submit the selected value in a dropdown via ajax in Django
body: <p>Am a little bit newbie to django ajax so my question might be an easy thing for experts.
  I have a select option dropdown where i want when the user selects a value from dropdown, the value is submitted via ajax so that i can run querysets in the django backend using the selected value.
  I can somehow figure out to do this in the backend but need a little help with how to submit this value in the front end by ajax.
  here is the dropdown code,just basic html,</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select&gt;
  &lt;option&gt;joshua&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option&gt;peter&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option&gt;james&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option&gt;pawine&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option&gt;flonah&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want an ajax function that will send the selected value to server so that i can use it to run a queryset in the django backend and return the result to ajax success function appropriately.
  Thanks in adavnce</p>