$.ajax Options and Shortcut Methods

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Core ajax method is $.ajax which has a ton of options Walk-through of main ajax options: Not setting url will use current url. You can now set url using $.ajax(url, options) Example of collecting form data with $(form).serialize() dataType specifies what type of data you’ll get back (“json”, “html”, “text”, etc). “jsonp” dataType allows get data cross-domain (Twitter API, Flickr, etc). Karl demos API search tool and how to hack your own JSONP service using iframe. http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/ for more $.ajax options Audience asks, “do you see anything in the browser when $.ajax is called?” Karl explains you have to do use the response data to build HTML to see something $.ajaxSetup() globally configures all $.ajax settings

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