Waiting on multiple asynchronous calls to complete before continuing

Question

So, I have a page that loads and through jquery.get makes several requests to populate drop downs with their values.

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Answer 1

If you're on Jquery 1.5 or later, I suspect the Deferred object is your best bet: http://api.jquery.com/category/deferred-object/

The helper method, when, is also quite nice: http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.when/