Passing a callback function to jQuery AJAX success function

Question

I\'m trying to pass in a function to run when the AJAX call is successful, however it\'s not working as it say\'s that \"callback is not a function\".

Example:

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Answer 1

showGradesBox is a string in your code. So you have two options to execute the callback function:

If you want to keep the string you can use

this[callback](response);

(if callback is defined in global scope you can also use window[callback](response);

Or you can pass the function directly:

var callback = showGradesBox;

(in this case you can keep your existing code for callback execution)