adding and retreiving

[Hyper]

then you cheated

Well it's easier for beginners, I use it too because I use jQuery effects too so why not make it easier while I already have jQuery included..
Btw, what's the example code of AJAX in plain JS(well the way that isnt "cheating")

[Tino]

An example. Say you have a text file containing some very simple text. On a page you have a div (or whatever), that disappears and gets replaced by the contents of the text file when clicked upon. You could do that using this function:

Line number On/Off | Expand/Contract | Select all

1. function loadText() {
2.     if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
3.         obj = new XMLHttpRequest();
4.     } else {
5.         obj = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
6.     }
7.  
8.     obj.onreadstatechange = function() {
9.         if (obj.readyState == 4 && obj.status == 200) {
10.             document.getElementById("someElement").innerHTML = obj.responseText;
11.         }
12.     }
13.     obj.open("GET", "file.txt", true);
14.     obj.send();
15. }

This is pretty much the first thing you learn about AJAX, (Can't be bothered to explain it all) If I remember correctly, W3Schools uses pretty much this same example to 'teach' AJAX. So you can look there for more information if you like.

[Hyper]

This is pretty much the first thing you learn about AJAX, (Can't be bothered to explain it all) If I remember correctly, W3Schools uses pretty much this same example to 'teach' AJAX. So you can look there for more information if you like.

Thanks tino

[wide_load]

jquery effects are also cheating

The problem is that while jquery is a very good library, it stops people from learning real javascript.

I wrote my own versions of the effects i wanted and and use them instead.

Plus a lot of people just use one effect from the library, and loading all of the other functions when they are not used cant be good.