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Changing page after successful AJAX call

in jQuery Mobile • 7 years ago

I have two offline apps - let's call them A and B. Both using same/latest version of jquery and jquerymobile

When A log's on, jquery does an ajax call, if credentials are good, the page changes to the main menu.
When B log's on, jquery does an ajax call, if credentials are good, the page does NOT go to the main menu.

Both have <a href='mainmenu' id='login'> HTML tags.
Both have $("#login").click( LoginFunction )
Both return true inside the success call of ajax.
Both return false inside the error call of ajax.
Both have return outside the call to ajax.

My understanding is in jqmobile, a return of true will ensure the <a href> link is followed. Anything other than a true return means the link is not followed.

Any suggestions/ideas on what I am doing in one, but not in the other?

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watusiware

Re: Changing page after successful AJAX call

7 years ago

The return value from the success call has nothing to do with whether or not the link is followed. That's because Ajax is (normally) asynchronous. The link will already have been followed (or not) in the past.

You can return false in the .click() callback function to prevent following the link. However, the modern jQuery way is to use preventDefault():

$('#login').click(function(e) {

e.preventDefault(); // Now it will not follow the link

...

}

If you want to follow the link AFTER you have gotten the .success() callback, you have to do it yourself. You will have to retrieve the href attribute from the link and call the page change function. (Exactly how you do that depends on the version of JQM you are using, and you haven't mentioned it, so see the docs).

My understanding is in jqmobile, a return of true will ensure the <a href> link is followed. Anything other than a true return means the link is not followed.

Not specific to jQuery Mobile. It's actually a DOM-methods thing, which is carried through in jQuery. But it's the opposite. Returning false from some event callback prevents the default action of the event. Returning anything else allows the default action to be performed.

But do it the modern, jQuery way as I showed above. Use .preventDefault() . Return false will also prevent bubbling, which you may not want. jQuery separates the two concerns, if you want to prevent bubbling you can use .stopPropagation() as well.

fiprojects

Re: Changing page after successful AJAX call

7 years ago

Thanks for this - by co-incidence, my work-round was aligned with your suggested solution - Your first sentance (quoted) educated me some... thanks!

The return value from the success call has nothing to do with whether or not the link is followed.

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