I am a newbie to JQuery and would greatly appreciate if anyone can help me about this confusing problem:

I have a drop-down menu/single select wrapped into a div, which is controlled by jQuery hide/show. this div is dynamically generated by a JSTL tag and is in a form. the show/hide effect is controlled by another selection's choice. However, no matter what I do, the value of the select within the hide/show div won't submit  to the server at all! (for example, I pre-select some un-null value)

I really doubt if this div is still the form's element. otherwise, how can this value won't submit to server? how to find/debug this problem?

If this is the problem, is there any workaround? (I tried to setup the select's value in the jQuery's submit() function, or using the URL rewrite, neither works. --by the way, the form is using submit button/type, not a link.)

Thank you very much for any advice!

Sam