Yahoo JSONP Ajax Request Wrapped in callback function

Question

I understand that I can make a crossdomain ajax call with jquery, .ajax, and jsonp. I am calling the yahoo stock quote api. Everything is working and the result is returning

Answer 1

Here is how I got it to work:

I used .ajax instead of .jsonp because you need to give the url parameters. You also need to define in your code the name of the Yahoo callback function. Here is a link explaining how to use Yahoo callback function with its web services.

http://developer.yahoo.com/javascript/json.html#callbackparam

Here is the code: