response

Summary

Returns the response entity body, which is the fragment of the entity body of the response received so far (if LOADING) or the complete entity body of the response (if DONE).

Property of apis/xhr/XMLHttpRequestapis/xhr/XMLHttpRequest

Syntax

Note: This property is read-only.

var result = element.response;

Return Value

Returns an object of type anyany

Examples

This example reads an image as a binary file and creates an 8-bit unsigned integer array from the raw bytes.

var oReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
oReq.open("GET", "/myfile.png", true);
oReq.responseType = "arraybuffer";

oReq.onload = function (oEvent) {
  var arrayBuffer = oReq.response; // Note: not oReq.responseText
  if (arrayBuffer) {
    var byteArray = new Uint8Array(arrayBuffer);
    for (var i = 0; i < byteArray.byteLength; i++) {
      // do something with each byte in the array
    }
  }
};

oReq.send(null);

Related specifications

W3C XMLHttpRequest Specification

W3C Working Draft

Attributions

• Mozilla Developer Network : Article

• Microsoft Developer Network: Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article