The XMLHttpRequest
response
property returns the response's body content as an ArrayBuffer
, a Blob
, a Document
, a JavaScript Object
, or a string, depending on the value of the request's responseType
property.
The XMLHttpRequest
response
property returns the response's body content as an ArrayBuffer
, a Blob
, a Document
, a JavaScript Object
, or a string, depending on the value of the request's responseType
property.
An appropriate object based on the value of responseType
. You may attempt to request the data be provided in a specific format by setting the value of responseType
after calling open()
to initialize the request but before calling send()
to send the request to the server.
The value is null
if the request is not yet complete or was unsuccessful, with the exception that when reading text data using a responseType
of "text"
or the empty string (""
), the response can contain the response so far while the request is still in the LOADING
readyState
(3).
This example presents a function, load()
, which loads and processes a page from the server. It works by creating an XMLHttpRequest
object and creating a listener for readystatechange
events such that when readyState
changes to DONE
(4), the response
is obtained and passed into the callback function provided to load()
.
The content is handled as raw text data (since nothing here is overriding the default responseType
).
js
const url = "somePage.html"; //A local page function load(url, callback) { const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest(); xhr.onreadystatechange = () => { if (xhr.readyState === 4) { callback(xhr.response); } }; xhr.open("GET", url, true); xhr.send(""); }
Specification |
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XMLHttpRequest Standard # the-response-attribute |
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Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Internet Explorer | Opera | Safari | WebView Android | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | |
response |
9 | 12 | 6 | 10 | 11.6 | 5.1 | 3 | 18 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 1.0 |
XMLHttpRequest.responseText
and XMLHttpRequest.responseXML
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