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displayDetailsForPlayer(jsonData);

});

The getJSON function appends any input data to the URL as a query string. If the data is not of a primitive type, the function will convert it to a string before appending it to the URL. The request is placed as an HTTP GET request.

Any response is assumed to be JSON and is parsed as such using the global $.parseJSON function. The callback receives the parsed data ready to use.

Getting HTML

A frequent action you might want to perform from a client page is downloading some HTML via a simple GET request. The load function is an instance (as opposed to global) function that you can call over a wrapped set. Here’s the signature of the function:

$(selector).load(url, inputData, succeededCallback)

Note that input data and callback function are optional. In particular, the method is automatically bound to a default callback function that appends the downloaded markup to all elements in the wrapped set. Here’s an example:

var templateType = 1;

$("#panelAdvancedOptions").load("/template.aspx", templateType);

If any callback is provided in the call, it is executed after the default callback. No call is ever attempted if the wrapped set is empty. If the input data is a JavaScript object, the request goes out as a POST instead of a GET.

You are not forced to download the entire content of the provided URL. If the URL contains a white space, anything that follows is interpreted as a jQuery selector. Look at the following example:

$("#panelAdvancedOptions").load("/template.aspx #area_1");

The entire URL content is downloaded, but jQuery then discards everything but the DOM tree selected by the #area_1 expression. When you use load, you should be aware that some tags might be discarded during the parsing process. This typically occurs with tags such as and