how to wait for an ajax call to return

Question

I\'m trying to use JQuery although i\'m struggling to successfully wait for a ajax call to succeed before executing further code. Is there a way to wait for an ajax to call

Answer 1

Have a look at jQuery deferreds. You can't halt this, but you can call other code after an AJAX call returns.

// No way to stop.
$.ajax(...);
doSomething();

But with deferds you can:

$.ajax(...).success(function() {
   doSomething();
});

See this article.

http://www.erichynds.com/jquery/using-deferreds-in-jquery/