jQuery ajax returned data: json and html mix?

Question

I have this ajax request to get the data from my server, and the dataType is always html by default. But sometimes it would return json from the server

Answer 1

may be you need to handle it like this

try{
var response=jQuery.parseJSON('response from server');
if(typeof response =='object')
 {
    //control would reach this point if the data is returned as json
 }
 else
 {
    //control would reach this point if data is plain text  
     if(response ===false)
     {
         //the response was a string "false", parseJSON will convert it to boolean false
     }
     else
     {
          //the response was something else
     }
 }
}
catch(exp){
    //controls reaches here, if the data is html
}

Since you need to check the html data as well, you may need to take care of this,

Might also need to use a try / catch for exceptions if it is possible that parseJSON is going to be dealing with something other than JSON values (i.e. HTML)

REF:How can I check if a value is a json object?

EDIT:Edited to make code more precise towards solution