OnClick Send To Ajax

I’m trying to complete some ajax requests to insert a textarea into a database without refresh. Here is my code:

HTML:

<textarea name='Status'> </textarea>
<input type='button' onclick='UpdateStatus()' value='Status Update'>

JS:

function UpdateStatus(Status)
    {
    var Status = $(this).val();

        $(function()
        {
            $.ajax({
                url: 'Ajax/StatusUpdate.php?Status='.Status, data: "", dataType: 'json'
            });

        });
    }

My Questions:

1) How do I send the contents of the text area into the onclick function?

2) How do I escape/urlencode etc.. So it retains line breaks

Answer

<textarea name='Status'> </textarea>
<input type='button' value='Status Update'>

You have few problems with your code like using . for concatenation

Try this –

$(function () {
    $('input').on('click', function () {
        var Status = $(this).val();
        $.ajax({
            url: 'Ajax/StatusUpdate.php',
            data: {
                text: $("textarea[name=Status]").val(),
                Status: Status
            },
            dataType : 'json'
        });
    });
});