AJAX jQuery form submission with HTML in form
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I'm not terribly experienced with AJAX and so am using some tools and attempting to integrate and customize them. First, this is a wordpress site using an ajax form to submit a post. It all works great! Now, of course, I have to add a wysiwyg editor to the mix and need to figure out how to get the html content to submit properly.

Here's the submit code:

    jQuery("form.pfs").submit(function() {
		jQuery('textarea#postcontent').val(jQuery('div.workzone iframe').contents().find('body').html()); // I ADDED THIS LINE!!!
        jQuery(this).ajaxSubmit({
            type: "POST",
            url: jQuery(this).attr('action'),
            dataType:'json',
            beforeSend: function(){
                jQuery('.pfs-post-form #post').val('posting...');
            },
            complete: function(request,textStatus,error) {
                data = jQuery.parseJSON(request.responseText);
                if (data && data.error) {
                    jQuery('#pfs-alert').addClass('error').html('<p>'+data.error+'</p>').show();
                    jQuery('.pfs-post-form #post').val('Post');
                } else {
                    jQuery('form.pfs').reset();
                    location.reload();
                }
            }
        });
        return false;
    });

As you can see, I've added that first line where I take the content of the html in the wysiwyg (http://elrte.org/) and set it as the value of what would have been the original textarea (#postcontent)

The ajax works perfectly if there's an error, so it is only the "else" portion of the routine that is throwing the error:

    Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token < jquery.js:2
    e.extend.parseJSON jquery.js:2
    jQuery.submit.jQuery.ajaxSubmit.complete pfs-script.js:31
    F

So as you see, I need to validate for malicious code (not part of this help request!!) but more importantly I just want to be able to accept HTML in my form posts. Ideas? I am not 100% sure I understand what is failing and where...