jquery how to check response type for ajax call

Question

How can I determine the response type of ajax call in Jquery? At times, the server sends json response and at times it sends only the html for display purposes. Right now I

Answer 1

The answers above didnt work for me so I came up with this solution:

success: function(data, textStatus , xhr) {
if(xhr.responseXML.contentType == "text/html") {
    //do something with html
    }
else if(xhr.responseXML.contentType == "application/json") {
    //do something with json
    }}