Catching errors on the jQuery's load() function

12/16/2009 Catching errors on the jQuery's load() function
Posted by Osvel Legon

When using the jQuery's load function there is a way to catch the errors. The callback is full of parameters from the request and the response:

$("body").load("/load.aspx", function (responseText, textStatus, XMLHttpRequest) {
    if (textStatus == "error") {
       alert('Error!');
       // XMLHttpRequest.responseText has the error info you want.
       alert(XMLHttpRequest.responseText);
    }
});

The XMLHttpRequest is a full XMLHttpRequest object.

Also you can register a general error handler for all the jQuery ajax calls:

$.ajaxError(function(event, request, settings) {
alert("Oops!!");
});

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