Data empty in jQuery.get() callback

Question

$.get("http://localhost/test.php", (function(data){
    alert(data);
}))

The alert is empty. I'm new to this, and I can't see what I'm doing wrong. Help?

Answer 1

Perhaps you're not telling the code to run? Try putting it in $(document).ready() with

$(function() {
  $.get("http://localhost/test.php", function(data){
    alert(data);
  });
});

http://api.jquery.com/ready/