load a post into a div

In effect, I want to say this:

$('#results1').html($.post("videoloaderurl.php", { id: byName } ));

Obviously, t开发者_StackOverflow中文版he code above doesn't work. where results1 is a div and videoloaderurl.php returns html.

You should provide success callback function for post function, which could add retrived data to the div.

$.post("videoloaderurl.php", { id: byName }, function(data) {
  $('#results1').html(data);
});

$.post() is an AJAX method - meaning it is Asynchronous. You have to wait for the data to be returned and do something in the callback rather than the function returning the value.

$.post("videoloaderurl.php", { id: byName }, function(d){
    $('#results1').html(d)
});