Question

I get the following response from the server after doing an ajax request:

{"error":false,"success":true}

My ajax code:

$.ajax({
    url: '/update',
    type: 'post',
    data: $(this).serialize(),
    success: function(response) {
        alert(response)
    },
    error: function() {
        alert('An error occured, form not submitted.');
    }
});

instead of alerting the whole response I want to alert the value of “success”, which in this case would be true. How to do this?

Answer 1

alert(response.success);

would do it, you can add dataType: 'json' to your $.ajax options to make absolutely sure it’s evaluated as an object in your callback.