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JavaScript

Posted by Logen Li
Logen Li
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Question about $get url

Hi Guys!

in $.get method :

we have a URL feature. What is this URL mean? I know it is connected to the server, but how what exactly this URL work? Because sometimes I see that the URL can even be a form "action" attribute. Just a little bit confused

2 Answers

Brendan Whiting
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Brendan Whiting
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URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It's basically an address on the web.

It could be the address of HTML, which will then get rendered into a nice web page by the browser, such as the one we're looking at right now, which has an address of https://teamtreehouse.com/community/question-about-get-url, and returned the HTML that you can look at in the Chrome Developer tools.

It could also be an address of some JSON data, for example this is the URL for the JSON of your profile: https://teamtreehouse.com/logenli.json. When you're using jQuery's $.get() method, you're often doing an AJAX request for some JSON like that.

In the context of a <form> element, the action attribute of the form is the URL that we're going to send the data to, the data from the form fields that the user filled out.

If you haven't already, this Treehouse course on HTTP is good and might help fill some gaps here.

Logen Li
Logen Li
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Thank you Brendan! Appreciate! Your answer is very very clear

Logen Li
Logen Li
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So basically the call back function really receive a status text right?

Logen Li
Logen Li
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Yes

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Logen Li
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Logen Li
Logen Li
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Okay gotcha 👌 thank you so much !