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016 Loading external pages dynamically with jQuery AJAX

016 Loading external pages dynamically with jQuery AJAX

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016 Loading external pages dynamically with jQuery AJAX

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Hello! This is Ray Villalobos and welcome to View Source! This week I am going to show you how to load external content with jQuery Ajax, so if you need to move something from A to B into C, then it's time to View Source. Ajax stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. So it's a combination of technologies that lets you send and receive information from a server without a page reload. It drives the way apps like Facebook update their content without having to refresh the page, and reduces the amount of load on your server by letting you update specific elements in your document. Using Ajax has been historically difficult, because of the way it has to be implemented. Different platforms require slightly different versions of the code, but jQuery makes it extremely easy to load things from one place to another. So let's take a look at how you can easily load, not just another page, but an element within a page and we'll throw in a little bit of animation for good measure. So let's go…

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