jQuery AJAX request returning null in IE only

Question

I'm trying to GET an HTML document using the jQuery ajax() method.

When I try and parse the returned data using $(data) all browsers other than IE are returning a DOM element, where as IE is returning NULL.

I've checked 'data' and it's a string as expected.

Any ideas what might cause this? I'm guessing it could be errors in the markup being pulled in, but I can't spot anything in the validation?

I'm using jQuery 1.4.2.

  jQuery.ajax({
    url: url,
    cache: false,
    contentType: 'html',
    processData: false,
    success: function(data) {
      console.log($(data)); 
    }
  });

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Be sure that your url variable links not to xhtml page otherwise there are many problems with IE.