Jquery AJAX with ASP.NET WebMethod Returning Entire Page
Solution 1:
Check out this link. I used some of his other posts to calll WCF service with success. Be sure to check out the related articles:
http://encosia.com/2008/05/29/using-jquery-to-directly-call-aspnet-ajax-page-methods/
Read through the article but its essentially:
$("#Result").click(function() {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "Default.aspx/GetDate",
data: "{}",
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
dataType: "json",
success: function(msg) {
$("#Result").text(msg.d);
}
});
});
Solution 2:
I think I was getting confused with the "type" parameter in JQuery's $.post command. After talking to some folks, it seems that the return type for calling a WebMethod MUST be "json". I was trying to use "html". Once I changed it to "json" and then everything worked like normal. So apparently, a method decorated with [WebMethod] returns JSON only, and that's where my hangup was.
Thanks for your replies guys.
Solution 3:
Try changing the last parameter "html" to "text". This parameter specifies the type of data to be returned.