I am trying to send data with jQuery and Ajax using $.ajax. I simplified the case just to send one thing but it does not work. Can someone help?

HTML:

<a href="#" id="button">clic!</a>
<br>
<div id="content"></div>

JQUERY

$("#button").click(function(e){
    e.preventDefault();
    $.ajax({
        name: "John",
        type: 'POST',
        url:"3.php",
        success:function(result){
            $("#content").html(result);
        }
    });

 });

PHP:

<?php

if( $_REQUEST["name"] )
{
   $name = $_REQUEST['name'];
   echo $name;
}

?>

You should send data like this:

$.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "3.php",
    data: { name: "John" },
    success:function(result){
        $("#content").html(result);
    }
})

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