How to get the jQuery ajax error response text

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I am sending an error response to my jQuery  However  I can not get the response text  in the example below this would be Gone to the beach   The only thing jQuery says is  error    See this example for details   php   lt       header  HTTP 1 1 500 Internal Server Error        print  Gone to the beach    gt    jQuery    ajax       type       post       data       id  0       cache     false      url        doIt php       dataType   text       error  function  request  error            console log arguments           alert   Can t do because      error              success  function              alert   Done                   Now my result ist   log     XMLHttpRequest readyState 4 status 500   error   undefined    alert      Can t do because  error   Any ideas

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If you want to get Syntax Error with line number  use this  error  function xhr  status  error      alert error

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For me  this simply works   error  function xhr  status  error      alert xhr responseText

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This is what worked for me      function showErrorMessage xhr  status  error            if  xhr responseText                       var jsonResponseText     parseJSON xhr responseText               var jsonResponseStatus                   var message                     each jsonResponseText  function name  val                    if  name     ResponseStatus                         jsonResponseStatus     parseJSON JSON stringify val                           each jsonResponseStatus  function name2  val2                             if  name2     Message                                  message   val2                                                                                                     alert message

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I used this  and it worked perfectly    error  function xhr  status  error        alertify error JSON parse xhr responseText  error

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The best simple approach    error  function  xhr    var err   JSON parse xhr responseText   alert err message

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Look at the responseText property of the request parameter

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you can try it too       document  ajaxError      function  event  jqXHR  ajaxSettings  thrownError            alert   event     event        jqXHR     jqXHR        ajaxSettings     ajaxSettings        thrownError     thrownError

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This will allow you to see the whole response not just the  responseText  value  error  function xhr  status  error        var acc            each xhr  function index  value            acc push index          value               alert JSON stringify acc

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Try   error  function xhr  status  error      var err   eval       xhr responseText           alert err Message

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If you re not having a network error  and wanting to surface an error from the backend  for exmple insufficient privileges  server your response with a 200 and an error message  Then in your success handler check data status     error

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As ultimately suggested by this other answer and it s comments on this page   error  function xhr  status  error      var err   JSON parse xhr responseText     alert err Message

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