How can I get jQuery to perform a synchronous, rather than asynchronous, Ajax request?

Question

I have a JavaScript widget which provides standard extension points. One of them is the beforecreate function. It should return false to prevent an

Answer 1

This is example:

$.ajax({
  url: "test.html",
  async: false
}).done(function(data) {
   // Todo something..
}).fail(function(xhr)  {
   // Todo something..
});