What's the difference between $.get and $.ajax?

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What's the difference between $.get() and $.ajax

The code I've been given uses calls like this:

$.get(href)
   .success(function (content) {
        $('#content')

and:

$.ajax({
    cache: false,
    url: href + params.param,
    dataType: 'html'
})

Can someone explain what the difference is between these. Is there any advantage to using one over the other?

check out this answer : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3870086/difference-between-ajax-and-get-and-load — , Sep 10 '12 at 16:02
Both accomplish the same work.. $.get() is basically the shorter version of the $.ajax() GET request.. — Sushanth --, Sep 10 '12 at 16:03

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '12 at 16:02

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Can someone explain what the difference is between these.

See the documentation for get:

This is a shorthand Ajax function, which is equivalent to:

$.ajax({
  url: url,
  data: data,
  success: success,
  dataType: dataType
});

Is there any advantage to using one over the other?

One is shorter. One is more flexible.

answered Sep 10 '12 at 16:02

Quentin

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Mostly a copypasta from the API page, but this is the most objective answer. +1 – Fabrício Matté Sep 10 '12 at 16:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '12 at 16:03

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.get(), .getJSON(), .getScript(), .post(), and .load() are all helper methods that call .ajax().

Think of them as shortcuts to get the same result with less code.

answered Sep 10 '12 at 16:03

Phil

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 10 '12 at 16:03

I believe that under the covers they both do the same thing. The main difference is that .get is a simpler interface which makes it easier to use but is a lot less flexible in terms of what you can do with it. .ajax on the other hand has all the functionality in there which means you can do whatever you want but is a little more complex.

As a rule of thumb use .get if you can and when that doesn't seem to do quite what you want move on to useing .ajax instead.

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 10 '12 at 16:04

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You can read about this here:

$.ajax http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax
$.get http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.get

all the documentation is available on the jQuery website

answered Sep 10 '12 at 16:04

Alex

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What's the difference between $.get and $.ajax?

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