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Basic Ajax Demo

Here is a basic Ajax demo. I borrowed (and modified) it from dhtmlgoodies.com for a couple of reasons: It represents basic Ajax functionality you will probably find quite useful and it demonstrates some common problems associated with a many of the examples available for you to download from the internet. The code example is overly complicated and hard for a beginner to get their head around and it didn't even work as downloaded! It took me a few minutes to find and correct the mistakes.

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  • About AJAX
  • More AJAX

In a future article I will take the Ajax code supplied by dhtmlgoodies.com (and their original source, SACK, from TwilightUniverse.com) and break it down for you and show you what each part does, why it is overly complicated for this particular application, why there were problems using it in this context and what you can do do keep it simple.