What is the difference between Local Events and Global Events in jQuery?

Ajax requests produce a number of different events that you can subscribe to. There are two types of events:

Local Events

These are callbacks that you can subscribe to within the Ajax request object.

$.ajax({    beforeSend: function(){       // Handle the beforeSend event    },    complete: function(){      // Handle the complete event    }    // ...... });

Global Events

These events are broadcast to all elements in the DOM, triggering any handlers which may be listening. You can listen for these events like so:

$("#loading").bind("ajaxSend", function(){    $(this).show();  }).bind("ajaxComplete", function(){    $(this).hide(); });

Global events can be disabled, for a particular Ajax request, by passing in the global option, like so:

$.ajax({    url: "test.html",    global: false,    // ... });