Problems using jQuery $.ajax to pass data
- by iboeno
I'm using ASP.NET and attempting to call a method with a signature of
[WebMethod]
public static string GetInfo(string id){...}
using the following javascript:
var elementValue = $("#element").attr('id');
var d = "{id : " + elementValue + "}";
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "../WebPage.aspx/GetInfo",
data: d,
contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
dataType: "json",
success: function(msg) {
//do this
}
});
And this is not working. If instead I set elementValue = 2; it works fine. If I try to hardcode in a string value for testing purposes e.g. elementValue = "nameToLookUp"; It fails. Why is this happening, and how do I resolve it?
On a side not, why is type: required to be POST instead of a GET? In the end I just want to pass a string value I want to look up in a DB and retrieving some json data.
