Folks, I'm missing something here but can't figure it.
The following is inside a $('#xx').click event handler that inside a div that is originally hidden until a parent is clicked. The the revealed #xx button is clicked firing this: var dnsData="smode=clearnode&hn="+hn+"&oldip="+ip+"&entry="+entry; $.ajax({ url: "UpdateEntry", type: "POST", dataType: "html", data: dnsData, success: function(msg){ alert("DNS Update Succeeded"); }, error: function(msg){ alert("Critical Error in DNS Update. No changes applied. Please manually check UDNS for \n"+hn+" set to 1.1.1.1"); } }); The POST itself is working, but each time this event set is fired the POST itself get's executed only once but either success or error local function gets executed x times. i.e. first time I fire this event (in an error condition) error gets called once, but if I click again it get's fired twice, again and three times etc etc. Or if I click away from the #xx button (which rehides it's parent div) then reveal it again the same thing happens. Debugging via Firebug seems to show that // Handle the global AJAX counter 2058 if ( s.global && ! --jQuery.active ) 2059 jQuery.event.trigger( "ajaxStop" ); jQuery.active is incrementing on each execution of the #xx button, which then in turn decreases on each call to - for example the error function - until finally ajaxStop is called. I've tried setting global: false in the ajax above but to no avail. also I have a .post in the same page that seems to show the same behaviour. I'm have no idea what is causing this, any help would be greatly appreciated. Cheers