> I have a bunch of ajax events that are fired one after an other to fill > different spots on the page. Hence it's important that I know which dom > element each on of the resulting data is supposed to belong to. > > I was wondering if there is a way I can pass the id of each element into the > call so that it gets returned automagically without any intervention by the > server? > > In YUI I can pass any number of arguments to an axax call and these > areguments are available as part of the response.
You can achieve this sort of thing using closures. For example: function getData(id, url) { $.ajax({ url: url, success: function(data) { $(id).html(data); } }); }