A good reason is for security – this can prevent CSRF attacks because this header cannot be added to the AJAX request cross domain without the consent of the server via CORS. Only the following headers are allowed across origins: Accept Accept-Language Content-Language Last-Event-ID Content-Type any others cause a “pre-flight” request to be issued in CORS supported browsers. … Read more
Sorry the problem is me! the was out of sync but this was because I have the HTML text the wrong way around. On the first click I want the div to fade out and the text to say “Show Text”. Will check more thoroughly next time before I ask! My code is now: Thanks … Read more
Why would that be the case? Is his $/jQuery distinction correct? Because almost every JavaScript library defines a function called $. When you have many libraries in one document, conflicts may appear. If you are sure that jQuery is and always will be the only script defining that function, I wouldn’t have anything against using … Read more
I did a bit more digging into the Postman code that was able to run successfully and got the correct answer from that. Here’s the code I used to correctly run the API and pass the information cross-domain.
Why don’t you place your table in a div?
Does it have something to do with preventing other events on the page from firing? Yes. Setting async to false means that the statement you are calling has to complete before the next statement in your function can be called. If you set async: true then that statement will begin it’s execution and the next … Read more
Is your website also on the oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com domain? or your trying to make a call to a domain and the same origin policy is blocking you? Unless you have permission to set header via CORS on the oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com domain you may want to look for another approach.
You use a combination of CSS’s transform (with vendor prefixes as necessary) and transform-origin, like this: (also on jsFiddle)
You can animate the scrolltop of the page with jQuery. See this site: http://papermashup.com/jquery-page-scrolling/