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Asked: 2026-06-18T05:42:35+00:00

I have a fully functioning .php which utilizes XMLHttpRequest to Post data back to

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I have a fully functioning .php which utilizes XMLHttpRequest to Post data back to itself. What I’m looking to do is making the response a little more friendly for the user rather than me simply displaying a JS alert() when the function completes.

How can/should I access particular portions in the response rather than the entire response. For example, I could…

document.getElementById('result').innerHTML = "Received:<br>\n" + xmlhttp.responseText;

…to grab all of it. Can I simply pull individual pieces out with document.getElementByid()??

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  1. Editorial Team

    You cannot call those methods on the responseText, but you can call them on responseXML – see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms534370(v=vs.85).aspx for an example. The responseXML property will contain a DOM and you can use standard DOM methods there (assuming of course, your server is actually sending back XML – if not, you are on your own for parsing the responseText)

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