Aborting jQuery().load()

You can’t do this with .load() directly, since it returns the jQuery object for chaining, but if you change to the full $.ajax() call with .html() you can, like this:

var xhr = $.ajax({
            url: 'mypage.htm',
            success: function(data) {
              $("#myElement").html(data);
            }
          });
//if needed, abort the request later..
xhr.abort();

This uses the .abort() method on the XMLHttpRequest object to abort the load.