how to stop ajax call in jquery code example

Example 1: jquery cancel ajax request on click

var xhr = $.ajax({
    type: "POST",
    url: "some.php",
    data: "name=John&location=Boston",
    success: function(msg){
       alert( "Data Saved: " + msg );
    }
});

//kill the request
xhr.abort()

Example 2: jquery abort ajax

var xhr = $.ajax({
    type: "GET",
    url: "https://www.codegrepper.com/myapi.php",
    success: function(response){
       //do something
    }
});

xhr.abort(); //kill the request