Get _POST from Select element in Form I'm  trying to get the _POST data for my form in a plugin, and for whatever reason am unable to get the selected option from a select tag:

 &lt;form class="parseResults" action="actions/MyPlugin/myFunctionAjax" method="post" name="submitResults"&gt;
    &lt;select name="submission"&gt;
        &lt;option value="view"&gt;View&lt;/option&gt;
        &lt;option value="submit"&gt;Submit&lt;/option&gt;
    &lt;/select&gt;
    &lt;textarea rows="9" cols="80" name="content"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
    &lt;input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit"&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;


And then in my plugin, I can get the textarea form content like:

    $formContent = craft()-&gt;request-&gt;getPost('content');


But when I try to get the selected option from the #submission select, nothing returns

    $submissionType = craft()-&gt;request-&gt;getPost('submission');


What am I missing or doing wrong in order to get the selected option?
Form elements need to have a name attribute. 

&lt;select name="submission" id="submission"&gt;
&lt;option value="view"&gt;View&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;option value="submit"&gt;Submit&lt;/option&gt;
&lt;/select&gt;

&lt;textarea name="content" rows="9" cols="80" id="content"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;


That should do the trick!