PHP Contact Form Status Update in DIV - php

Question

Sounds like an odd question but here is what I have. The php has a snippet at the end that says success or failure makes a white screen to display this, I really want it to pop up right under the submit button on the same page rather than redirect the entire page.
I assume I could direct that to an empty <div>?
mail.php:
<?php
$name = $_POST['name'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$message = $_POST['message'];
$formcontent=" From: $name \n Phone: $phone \n Message: $message";
$recipient = "art#jamisonsigns.com";
$subject = "Web Contact Form";
$mailheader = "From: $email \r\n";
mail($recipient, $subject, $formcontent, $mailheader) or die("Error!");
echo "Thank You!" . " -" . "<a href='index.html' style='text-decoration:none;color:#ff0099;'> Return Home</a>";
?>
With a simple HTML form on my website as follows:
<form class="contact-form" form action="mail.php" method="POST">
<fieldset>
<input type="text" class="name" id="name" placeholder="Name...">
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<input type="email" class="email" id="email" placeholder="Email...">
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<input type="text" class="phone" id="phone" placeholder="Phone...">
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<textarea name="message" id="message" cols="30" rows="4" placeholder="Message.."></textarea>
</fieldset>
<fieldset>
<input type="submit" class="button" id="button" value="Send Message">
</fieldset>
</form>

Answer 1

You need to submit the form with Ajax. Then on success insert the message in the html.
$('#button').click(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
var formdata = $('#formID').serializeArray();
var url = '/urltopost.php';
$.ajax(
{
url : url,
type: "POST",
data: formdata,
success:function(data, textStatus, jqXHR)
{
//data: return data from server
console.log("STATUS:" + textStatus + " | jqXHR:" + jqXHR + " | data:" + data);
},
error: function(jqXHR, textStatus, errorThrown)
{
//if fails
alert("ERROR:" + " -> " +errorThrown);
}
});
});
Here it is a tutorial if you need..