jquery ajax get return value

Question

i want to get the \'printed value\' of html pages.

i tried below query, but showGetResult() just return \'null value\'

but my apache server logs printed i access

Answer 1

You have the wrong dataType per the documentation for jQuery.ajax:

"html": Returns HTML as plain text; included script tags are evaluated when inserted in the DOM.

So you want to use html:

...
dataType: 'html',
...

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In addition, as others have said, the ajax request is asynchronous. So you need to restructure your code. For example:

function showGetResult( name )
{
 var result = null;
 jQuery.ajax({
    url: 'http://localhost/index.php',
    type: 'get',
    dataType: 'html',
    success:function(data)
    {
        alert(data);
        result = data;
        document.write(result);
    } 
 });
}

showGetResult('test');