jQuery get() Method
jQuery AJAX Methods
Example
Send an HTTP GET request to a page and get a result back:
$("button").click(function(){
$.get("demo_test.asp",function(data,status){
alert("Data: " + data + "\nStatus: " + status);
});
});
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Definition and Usage
The $.get() method loads data from the server using a HTTP GET request.
Examples
Request "test.php", but ignore return results:
Request "test.php" and send some additional data along with the request
(ignore return results):
$.get("test.php", { name:"Donald", town:"Ducktown" });
Request "test.php" and pass arrays of data to the server (ignore return
results):
$.get("test.php", { 'colors[]' : ["Red","Green","Blue"] });
Request "test.php" and alert the result of the request:
$.get("test.php", function(data){
alert("Data: " + data);
});
Syntax
$.get(URL,data,function(data,status,xhr),dataType)
Parameter |
Description |
URL |
Required. Specifies the URL you wish to request |
data |
Optional. Specifies data to send to the server along with the request |
function(data,status,xhr) |
Optional. Specifies a function to run if the request succeeds
Additional parameters:
- data - contains the resulting data from the request
- status - contains the status of the request ("success", "notmodified", "error", "timeout", or "parsererror")
- xhr - contains the XMLHttpRequest object
|
dataType |
Optional. Specifies the data type expected of the server response.
By default jQuery performs an automatic guess.
Possible types:
- "xml" - An XML document
- "html" - HTML as plain text
- "text" - A plain text string
- "script" - Runs the response as JavaScript, and
returns it as plain text
- "json" - Runs the response as JSON, and returns a
JavaScript object
- "jsonp" - Loads in a JSON block using JSONP. Will add an
"?callback=?" to the URL to specify the callback
|
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