Question

I’m using this following jquery code to insert the responsetext in the div.

$("#div").load('page.php?val='+myvalue)

Is it possible to get the responsetext into a javascript variable instead of applying it to a div.?

Answer 1

You would need to replace .load() with .get() for instance.

$.get('page.php?val='+myvalue, function( data ) {
    console.log( data ); 
    // you might want to "store" the result in another variable here
});

One word of caution: the data parameter in the above snippet does not necesarilly shim the responseText property from the underlaying XHR object, but it’ll contain whatever the request returned. If you need direct access to that, you can call it like

$.get('page.php?val='+myvalue, function( data, status, jXHR ) {
    console.log( jXHR.responseText ); 
});