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How to make a simple comment form post to the same page?

I would like to make a simple comment form (Name field, Comment field, Submit button) at the top of a page, and then when the person hits Submit it will post that comment at the top of a list of comments just below that form, on the same page. How would I send up the form, and how would i set up the part of the page that it posts to? Thanks.

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1. If you don't want to reload the page, you have to do it using AJAX. Set-up a <div id="upddiv">, on which you show the form itself at start. When you hit "submit", you do NOT submit the form: you call a javascript that makes an Httprequest. The response comes back from the server, and replaces the contents of your "upddiv". This means that the form is like this: <div id="upddiv"> <form name="frm"> => note: NO action the form here <button name = "send" onclick = "js_submit(document.forms['frm']; return false;" > SUBMIT </button> </form> </div> <script> function js_submit(theForm) { Send the form as an httprequest. The reply replaces the contents of <div upddiv> } </script> Go to http://www.web2coders.com and download the Miniblog script: it does something very similar and will be easy to adapt to your needs. (of course, I assume that you have server side scripts and databases: your comments have to be stored there...)