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JavaScript

Posted by Daniele Vicinanzo
Daniele Vicinanzo
21,277 Points

ajax readystate 1 2 3 4

i would understand better in detail what happen if i use 1,2,3 or 4 in the readystatechange function

if (xhr.readyState === 4) {}

1 Answer

Gilbert Kennen
Gilbert Kennen
10,661 Points

readyState can actually be 0-4. Here is an explanation of what they mean. Each time the state changes, an onreadystatechange event occurs.

A new XMLHttpRequest object starts in state 0

When you successfully call .open() on the obect, the status changes to 1

When you successfully call .send() on the object, an HTTP request goes off to the server defined in .open(). Once the HTTP response headers have been received and processed the status changes to 2

Eventually, the actual content of the request will start coming in. When this begins, the status changes to 3

Finally, once all of the content is downloaded and is ready to be used, the status changes to 4

Daniele Vicinanzo
Daniele Vicinanzo
21,277 Points

thanks