This article guides you through the AJAX basics and gives you two simple hands-on examples to get you started.

Contents

1 What’s AJAX?
2 Step 1 – say “Please!” or How to Make an HTTP Request
3 Step 2 – “There you go!” or Handling the Server Response
4 Step 3 – “All together now!” – A Simple Example
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I find a lot of this AJAX stuff a bit of a hype. Lots of people have
been using similar things long before it became “AJAX”. And it really
isn’t as complicated as a lot of people make it out to be. Here is a
simple example from one of my apps. First the [...]