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ddasari
ddasari

Reputation:

Best way to pass parameters to jQuery's .load()

Is there a difference in passing parameters to .load

$("#myDiv").load("myScript.php?var=x&var2=y&var3=z")

vs

$("#myDiv").load("myScript.php", {var1:x, var2:y, var3:z})

Also, is there a size limit to how much .load can handle? Can myScript.php return a couple hundred rows of data without issue?

Upvotes: 48

Views: 136705

Answers (2)

Farshid Saberi
Farshid Saberi

Reputation: 947

As Davide Gualano has been told. This one 

$("#myDiv").load("myScript.php?var=x&var2=y&var3=z")

use GET method for sending the request, and this one 

$("#myDiv").load("myScript.php", {var:x, var2:y, var3:z})

use POST method for sending the request. But any limitation that is applied to each method (post/get) is applied to the alternative usages that has been mentioned in the question.

For example: url length limits the amount of sending data in GET method.

Upvotes: 30

Davide Gualano
Davide Gualano

Reputation: 13003

In the first case, the data are passed to the script via GET, in the second via POST.

http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/load#urldatacallback

I don't think there are limits to the data size, but the completition of the remote call will of course take longer with great amount of data.

Upvotes: 43

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