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Denn
Denn

Reputation: 83

jQuery ajax misunderstand functions

I was reading something about Ajax and jQuery and I saw this code:

$.ajax({
  url: "test.html",
  cache: false
}).done(function( html ) {
  $("#results").append(html);
});

I don't see anywhere the declaration of "html", how will the code know what to append?

P.S. It might be a stupid question, but i didn't find the answer to this question anywhere :/

Upvotes: 0

Views: 54

Answers (1)

Kosmonaut
Kosmonaut

Reputation: 2290

When the ajax call completes it will pass data into the function defined for done.

.done(function(html){

html is not "defined" here, but rather the name of the variable that receives the data. Once the placeholder is defined you can use it anywhere in your function.

For example, if you have 

function myFunc(foo){
    alert(foo);
}

and then did

myFunc(1234);
//result 1234

myFunc("test");
//result "test"

So, really html is just what this person chose to call the data that is received from the ajax call. If you read the tutorial's on jQuery's site, most of the time they name this variable "data"

Upvotes: 1

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