how to return value from ajax function?

[Trisha8]

i want to return value from ajax function to the function where ajax call has been made.

function val()
{
var temp=ajaxfun();//ajax function;
}

function ajaxfun()
{
//url,type, data will go here and then
success: function(somedata){
//here i want to return data i.e. somedata
//something like "return somedata" to val();
}
}

[Dormilich]

it doesn’t work like that with asynchronous AJAX calls.

you could of course use a synchronous call, but the you wouldn’t need a success callback function either.

[Sherin]

Try This code

function cityconfirm()
{
var cityid=document.getElementById('city').value;
alert(getcityvalue(cityid));
return confirm('Are you sure you want to delete')
}

function getcityvalue(cityid)

{

jQuery.ajax({
url: 'http://mysite.com/lookupcity.asp?cityid=' + cityid,
type: 'get',
dataType: 'text/html',
success:function(data)
{
return(data);
}
});
}

[priti kumari]

function follow() {
get Products(functi on(d) {[URL=["http://pritikumari.000 webhostapp.com/priti[/URL]
//processing the data
console.log(d);
});
}
function get Products(callba ck) {
var data;
$.ajax({
u r l: 'u r l',
data: 'all product data to send',
success: function (resp) {
data = resp;
callback(data)
},
error: function () {}
}); // ajax asyn chronus request
//the following line wouldn't work, since the function returns immediately
//return data; // return data from the ajax request
}