jQuery get() Method

Send an HTTP GET request to a page and get a result back:

$("button").click(function(){
$.get("demo_test.asp", function(data, status){
alert("Data: " + data + "\nStatus: " + status);
});
});

Definition and Usage

The $.get() method loads data from the server using a HTTP GET request.

Request "test.php", but ignore return results:

$.get("test.php");

Request "test.php" and send some additional data along with the request (ignore return results):

$.get("test.php", { name:"Donald", town:"Ducktown" });

Request "test.php" and pass arrays of data to the server (ignore return results):

$.get("test.php", { 'colors[]' : ["Red","Green","Blue"] });

Request "test.php" and alert the result of the request:

$.get("test.php", function(data){
alert("Data: " + data);
});

$.get(URL,data,function(data,status,xhr),dataType)

Parameter	Description
URL	Required. Specifies the URL you wish to request
data	Optional. Specifies data to send to the server along with the request
function(data,status,xhr)	Optional. Specifies a function to run if the request succeeds Additional parameters: data - contains the resulting data from the request status - contains the status of the request ("success", "notmodified", "error", "timeout", or "parsererror") xhr - contains the XMLHttpRequest object
dataType	Optional. Specifies the data type expected of the server response. By default jQuery performs an automatic guess. Possible types: "xml" - An XML document "html" - HTML as plain text "text" - A plain text string "script" - Runs the response as JavaScript, and returns it as plain text "json" - Runs the response as JSON, and returns a JavaScript object "jsonp" - Loads in a JSON block using JSONP. Will add an "?callback=?" to the URL to specify the callback