how to post to a form with jquery/ajax

Question

I have the following code but when I submit the from the page redirects. I want to be able to post to it using jquery/ajax so that the page wont refresh on submit. Can someone show me a jsfiddle demo?

<form id="widget_contact" action="http://www.mysaintssearch.com/?cmd=sb-gimme&from=?cmd=home" method="post">
<input type="text" name="pcode" id="fc_name" />
<input type="hidden" name="hdnCmd" value="sb-gimme" />
<input name="send_button" id="fc_submit" class="btn_b" type="submit" value="Gimme" />
</form>

Answer 1

Take a look at jQuery post():

$.ajax({
  type: 'POST',
  url: url,
  data: data,
  success: success,
  dataType: dataType
});