From the course: SharePoint Advanced: Enhancing Functionality with JavaScript
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Ajax
From the course: SharePoint Advanced: Enhancing Functionality with JavaScript
Ajax
- [Instructor] Here is something else you should be a little familiar with as you start thinking about using JavaScript in your SharePoint site, AJAX or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. Now AJAX isn't a programming language in and of itself. Rather it's a development technique whose core function is to update web content asynchronously. That's the A of AJAX. That means that a website doesn't need to reload an entire page when only a portion of the page's contents needs to change. Now AJAX is another one of those things that is absolutely everywhere online. You know how when you start typing in a browser bar your system starts returning possible results to you? All those suggestions, that's AJAX working right there. AJAX works in SharePoint as part of jQuery and you call it with the dollar symbol just like any other jQuery element. It's a pretty handy tool since it does two things. Number one, it speeds up your codes since it's an easy jQuery call. And two, it speeds up the time a…
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