title: Using POST in React without form?
body: <p>Lets say I have this code here:</p>
  
  <pre><code>getInitialState:function(){
  return { food: 'Chinese' }
  },
  
  restaurants:function(){
    return (&lt;div&gt;&lt;form method="post"&gt;
     &lt;p&gt;I like &lt;span name="food"&gt;{this.state.food}&lt;/span&gt; food&lt;/p&gt;
     &lt;button type="submit"&gt;Butane&lt;/button&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;&lt;/div&gt;);
  },
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My only experience with POST so far has been with forms and input fields. So I would like to know how to do this without, using more static content. </p>
  
  <p>In the above example, I have content that isn't derived from an input field. I would like to put the state variable, in this case, <code>Chinese</code>, into a POST request. </p>
  
  <p>Ideally, the button <code>labeled butane</code> submits the info from my state into my POST. And the span name is there to assign it a name for my back-end to read it from. </p>
  
  <p>How would I re-arrange this code to enable use of the state variable in a POST context?</p>