Beginner's AJAX Tutorial

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Table of Contents

Audience and Pre-Requisites

Introduction

What is AJAX?

Talking to the Server

The Rest of the Pieces

Google and AJAX

More Examples and Tutorials

 

Audience and Pre-Requisites

This tutorial covers the basics of AJAX. The pre-requisites are knowledge of CSS, DHTML and JavaScript. We have a separate tutorial on these topics that provides just what you need to know to work with AJAX.

Introduction

What is AJAX?

AJAX is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is a development technique for creating interactive web applications. Unlike classic web pages, which must load in their entirety if content changes, AJAX allows web pages to be updated asynchronously by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes.  more...