Consuming Web services

jQuery Ajax enables you to consume web services through client code. In this recipe, we will send form data to a web service method. The constructs used in this example are summarized in the following table:

Construct	Type	Description
$("#identifier")	jQuery selector	This selects an element based on its ID.
$("html_tag")	jQuery selector	This selects all elements with the specified HTML tag.
$.ajax()	jQuery function	This posts an Ajax request to the server with the set options.
.append()	jQuery method	This inserts content at the end of each matched element.
click	jQuery event	This is fired when you click on an element. It corresponds to the JavaScript click event.
event. preventDefault()	jQuery method	This prevents the default action of the event from being triggered.
.focus()	jQuery event binder	This triggers the focus event of an element or binds an event handler to the focus event.
:gt(i)	jQuery selector	This selects matched...