XMLHttpRequest.response

The XMLHttpRequest.response property returns the response's body. It can be of the type ArrayBuffer, Blob, Document, JavaScript object, or a DOMString, depending of the value of XMLHttpRequest.responseType property. Value of response is null if the request is not complete or was not successful. However, if the value of responseType was set to "text" or the empty string, response can contain the partial text response while the request is still in the loading state.

Example

var url = 'somePage.html'; //A local page

function load(url, callback) {
  var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();

  xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (xhr.readyState === 4) {
      console.log(xhr.response); //Outputs a DOMString by default
    }
  }

  xhr.open('GET', url, true);
  xhr.send('');
}
 

Specifications

Browser compatibility