Jquery AJAX with ASP.NET WebMethod Returning Entire Page

Question

I'm doing some simple tests (in preparation for a larger project) to call an ASP.NET WebMethod using JQuery AJAX. In my example, my WebMethod returns a simple string. However, when I attempt to call it using JQuery, I get the entire HTML page content returned instead of just my string. What am I missing?

Client Side :

$(document).ready(function ready() {
        $("#MyButton").click(function clicked(e) {
            $.post("Default.aspx/TestMethod",
                {name:"Bob"},
                function(msg) {
                    alert("Data Recieved: " + msg);
                },
                "html"
            );
        });
    });

Server Side:

using System;
using System.Web.Services;

namespace JqueryAjaxText
{
    public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {

        }

        [WebMethod]
        public static string TestMethod(string name)
        {
            return "The value submitted was " + name;
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

Check out this link. I used some of his other posts to calll WCF service with success. Be sure to check out the related articles:

http://encosia.com/2008/05/29/using-jquery-to-directly-call-aspnet-ajax-page-methods/

Read through the article but its essentially:

  $("#Result").click(function() {
    $.ajax({
      type: "POST",
      url: "Default.aspx/GetDate",
      data: "{}",
      contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
      dataType: "json",
      success: function(msg) {
        $("#Result").text(msg.d);
      }
    });
});