Abort Ajax requests using jQuery Using jQuery, how can I cancel/abort an Ajax request that I have not yet received the response from? Answer: Most of the jQuery Ajax methods return an XMLHttpRequest (or the equivalent) object, so you can just use abort(). See the documentation: abort Method (MSDN). Cancels the current HTTP request. abort() (MDN). If the request has been sent already, this method will abort the request. var xhr = $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "some.php", data: "name=John&location=Boston", success: function(msg){ alert( "Data Saved: " + msg );

How do I format a Microsoft JSON date? I'm taking my first crack at Ajax with jQuery. I'm getting my data onto my page, but I'm having some trouble with the JSON data that is returned for Date data types. Basically, I'm getting a string back that looks like this: /Date(1224043200000)/ From someone totally new to JSON - How do I format this to a short date format? Should this be handled somewhere in the jQuery code? I've tried the jQuery.UI.datepicker plugin using $.datepicker.formatDate() without any success. FYI: Here's the solution I

How can I upload files asynchronously? I would like to upload a file asynchronously with jQuery. This is my HTML: <span>File</span> <input type="file" id="file" name="file" size="10"/> <input id="uploadbutton" type="button" value="Upload"/> And here my Jquery code: $(document).ready(function () { $("#uploadbutton").click(function () { var filename = $("#file").val(); $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "addFile.do", enctype: 'multipart/form-data', data: { file: filename }, success: function () { alert("Data Uploaded: "); } }); }); }); Instead of the file being uploaded, I am only getting the filename. What can I do to

How do I return the response from an asynchronous call? I have a function foo which makes an Ajax request. How can I return the response from foo? I tried to return the value from the success callback as well as assigning the response to a local variable inside the function and return that one, but none of those ways actually return the response. function foo() { var result; $.ajax({ url: '...', success: function(response) { result = response; // return response; // <- I tried that one as