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I'm trying to display specific parts of a Cloudant database. This database contains many separate documents, and each document contains a category called "results". I'm trying to display whatever is in results. Each document is identified by its own id. I tried using the get() method in jQuery, but unfortunately it is not running successfully. 

 function grabData(){
  var url = 'https://cloudant.com/futon/document.html?acharya%2Ftoxtweet/ff558f75077e8c758523cd3bd8ffdf88';
   $.get(url, function(data) {
     $('.result').html(data);
       alert("Data loaded: " + data);
});
}
grabData();

I'm not entirely sure where I went wrong...Should I consider using SQL instead of ajax?

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what do you get as alert ? – Yasser Dec 22 '12 at 5:46
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What is the content type you are expecting? default is html. – Murali Dec 22 '12 at 5:49
What type of data is there category called "results"? – Jai Dec 22 '12 at 5:53
I got nothing as alert. It's just a blank page when I run it – Carrie Dec 23 '12 at 1:13

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The URL you are using is returning an entire webpage.

Your jQeury code is looking for an element on the current page with a class name of result and trying to change it's inner HTML to the response from the URL.

You didn't provide any additional code to look at, but I would assume that is not what you were expecting it to do.

I assume you are wanting to parse through the entire url, but in your current code the page will be processed as a raw string and not a DOM object. So you would have to parse through that string with regular expressions, etc.

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I think your issue it this:

replace this:

grabData();

with this:

$(document).ready(function(){
    grabData();
});

or more shortened:

$(function(){
    grabData();
});
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