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.