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ExplodingCabbage opened this issue Apr 23, 2014 · 1 comment
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jQuery.ajax docs contain contradictory statements about "html" dataType behaviour #482

ExplodingCabbage opened this issue Apr 23, 2014 · 1 comment

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The jQuery.ajax docs contain the following two statements about the behaviour of the "html" dataType:

"html": Returns HTML as plain text; included script tags are evaluated _when inserted in the DOM_.

...

If html is specified, any embedded JavaScript inside the retrieved data is executed _before the HTML is returned_ as a string.

(emphasis mine).

Unless I am misinterpreting what I am reading, these statements directly contradict each other.

If I understand it correctly, the second statement means that if I send an ajax call to somefile.html and get a response of

<html>
    <script>
        alert('hello world');
    </script>
</html>

then I should see the alert immediately upon receiving the response, even if I never add the response text to the DOM. This does not in fact happen, at least in the versions of jQuery I tried (1.4.0 and 2.1.0). As far as I can tell, the second statement is thus simply false and should be removed.

My apologies if I have somehow misunderstood the second quoted sentence, which seems quite possible - the behaviour that I interpret it as describing would be rather bizarre if it were in fact implemented.
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Wow, so much better! 🌟

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jQuery.ajax: rewrite Data Types section
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