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Question

I\'m using the following Ajax call to load a partial view into a div:

  $.ajax({
    url: \"/URL\",
    type: \"POST\",
    dataType: \"json\",
    data: JSON.st         


        

Answer 1

As you now know to add dataType to html instead of json. I also check for the following in the success/done part of jquery's ajax function:

success: function (response, status, xhr) {
  var ct = xhr.getResponseHeader("content-type") || "";
  if (ct.indexOf('html') > -1) {
    // returned result is of type html, so act accordingly
    }
  else if (ct.indexOf('json') > -1) {
    // returned result is of type json, so act accordingly
  }
}

Also, there are times when you might need to parse the data you have received from server as html like this:

var htmldata = $.parseHTML(data); //where data is the stuff you got from server. and now use this htmldata for your processing.

Reference for parseHTML()