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Hello,

I've been going through the documentation for the deferred objects API, and one thing that's still not clear to me is : what jQuery functions are returning a deferred object?

The documentation seems to say that jQuery.ajax() and the animation functions like jQuery.fadeIn() does (what about jQuery UI effects?), but the pages for those functions say they return a jqXHR object and a plain jQuery object.

Can I do this for example?

1. var firstResult = $("#myDiv").css("color", 'red');       // Plain function
   
2. var secondResult = $.ajax("foobar.php");                // Ajax function
   
3. var thirdResult = $("#someOtherDiv").fadeIn('slow'); // Animation function
   
4. $.when(firstResult, secondResult, thirdResult).done(alert("It's all over."));

As I understood it, jQuery.when() can be used with even not deferred functions. They will just be considered as already resolved. But still, which functions are considered as deferred?

I think the documentation should be made clearer about that.

Hi,

I have a form in my webpage that I would like to submit to a different action in a _blank window, but without changing the original form.

So I've tried this :

1. $('#myform').clone().attr('action', '/something/else').attr('target', '_blank').submit();

But it won't submit unless I append the new form in the page (which I don't want).

Is there any way I can achieved this?