why cant I return data from $.post (jquery)

Question

I must be making a silly mistake but I cannot return the data I get from a $.post function and store it in a variable, not only that, I cannot return ANYTHING from within th

Answer 1

You don't return anything from post(). What you have inside function(data, status) {} is actually a callback and doesn't return a result to the post() method like you think.

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