jQuery Ajax not loading content

Asked Nov 15 '12 at 01:57

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I'm working with the code written up at w3schools (this is the link) to try to get some Ajax working on my personal webpage.

Unfortunately, for some reason, it's not actually loading anything when I copy and paste this into an actual file. I have fixed the jQuery reference and I've created a file called demo_test.txt. Apart from that I haven't touched the code, but it doesn't work locally.

Has something changed with jQuery Ajax? Am I doing this wrong, or what? I can't figure out why this isn't working the way it does on the web.

Thanks!

asked Nov 15 '12 at 01:57

Benjamin Kovach

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Is file_test.txt available on the same relative path as the page? In other words if your test page is http://example.com/ajax_test.html then does http://example.com/demo_test.txt work? – Adam Nov 15 '12 at 02:00
@Adam Yes it is, I just double-checked. – Benjamin Kovach Nov 15 '12 at 02:01
Are you running it using file:// or on a web server like http://? – Adam Nov 15 '12 at 02:04
@Adam just locally: `file://`. Does it need to be on a server first? – Benjamin Kovach Nov 15 '12 at 02:05
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It does if you are using Google Chrome. – Adam Nov 15 '12 at 02:07
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http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=40787 – Adam Nov 15 '12 at 02:08
@Adam Thanks! That would have been nice to know -- it's working on Firefox, so all's fine for now. – Benjamin Kovach Nov 15 '12 at 02:08
let us [continue this discussion in chat](http://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/19562/discussion-between-adam-and-benjamin-kovach) – Adam Nov 15 '12 at 02:09
@worthycaesar Rely? Not completely but it IS a great place to start...I still find myself using them for small simple stuff where the rest of the world wide web just spits complicated noise at me. – VIDesignz Nov 15 '12 at 03:57

jQuery Ajax not loading content

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