AJAX Example

AJAX is short for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML.

Basically AJAX means you can reload parts of an HTML page without reloading the whole page. This makes it possible to create a faster and nicer feeling website or web app. It takes less time to generate the HTML for a part of a page than regenerating the whole page. It also takes less bandwith as there is less data to transport. Refreshing only part of a page can also reduce the blinking of web page refreshes.

Try clicking the links below to change the lower of the two texts on the right.

Click to change to text 1 using Ajax Tag
Click to change to text 2 using Ajax Tag
Click to change to text 3 using Ajax Tag

As you can see the main page doesn't refresh. To prove this look at the time stamp at the bottom. That time stamp changes whenever you refresh the whole page.

Last refresh: 2008-10-06 17:25:43