Fixing These jQuery! A Guide to Debugging

You cannot combine the previous two non-working techniques to create something that works

Don’t feel bad, everybody tries this once

function getContent() {

  var stuff;

  $.get("remote.php",function(data) {

    stuff = data;

  });

  return stuff;

}

var newContent = getContent(); // newContent === undefined

This is a very bad idea. Just like $.get() does not wait for the callback to finish, neither will the containing getContent function