How to avoid loading of HTML code on ajax call ?

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I am simply making an ajax call to store input data, but it returns html code of the file instead of the expected data.The files are latest.php & latest.js. This question has been asked several times but none of the solutions seem to be working for me. Could anybody please help me out?

What I have tried:

$(document).ready(function () {

    $('#myForm').on('submit', function () {

        var question = $('input[name=quest]').val();
        var answer = $('input[name=ans]').val();

        $.ajax({
            type: 'POST',
            url: 'latest.php',
            dataType: 'text',
            data: {
                quest: question,
                ans: answer
            },

            success: function (result) {

                console.log(result);
                $('#message').html('Data saved successfully.');

            },

            error: function (e) {

                alert('Error: ' + e);

            }

        });

        return false;

    });

});