calling mvc action via jquery ajax code example

Example 1: Calling MVC controller from Javascript ajax

<head runat="server">
    <title>FirstAjax</title>
    <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function () {
            var serviceURL = '/AjaxTest/FirstAjax';

            $.ajax({
                type: "POST",
                url: serviceURL,
                data: param = "",
                contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8",
                dataType: "json",
                success: successFunc,
                error: errorFunc
            });

            function successFunc(data, status) {     
                alert(data);
            }

            function errorFunc() {
                alert('error');
            }
        });
    </script>
</head>

Example 2: call a mvc action from jquery

$.ajax({
    // edit to add steve's suggestion.
    //url: "/ControllerName/ActionName",
    url: '<%= Url.Action("ActionName", "ControllerName") %>',
    success: function(data) {
         // parse your data here
         alert(data);
    }
});