I am trying to send a form to a php file via jquery. The problem is, that the content, which has to be sent to the php file, contains slashes (/) since there is bb code inside. So I tried the following:

$.ajax( 
    { 
        type: "POST", 
        url: "create.php", 
        data: "content=" + encodeURIComponent(content),
        cache: false,
            success: function(message)
            {   
                $("#somediv").html(message);

            }

  });

In the php file I use rawurldecode to decode the content and get my bb codes back which I can then transform into html. The problem is as soon as I put the encodeURIComponent() it will ouput: [object HTMLTextAreaElement]

What does that mean, where is my mistake?

Thanks for your help! phpheini