better way to use in AJAX requests? $.POST or $.AJAX?

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I have seen many articles for making ajax requests..

most of them are using $.AJAX for jquery ajax posting and some of them are using $.POST for jquery ajax posting...

I want to know what is the best way if I want to post using ajax? which method makes the ajax request fast and in lightweight?

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$.post is short-hand method for equivalent $.ajax that is set up for POST. They won't have any difference. – nhahtdh
@nhahtdh- Yes I realized, thank you very much.... – Naveen Gamage

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$.post is a shorthand way of using $.ajax for POST requests, so no difference.

$.ajax is generally better to use if you need some advanced configuration.

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$.post is just shorthand for $.ajax({type: 'POST'}). It makes no difference to the speed or weight of the request, just changes the readability of your code.

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$.post is just a shorthand for $.ajax({ type: 'POST' }) [see reference], so there is no acceptable performance improvement, but still a readability one.