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JavaScript by Example
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JavaScript by Example

by Dani Akash S
August 2017
Beginner
298 pages
7h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Submitting the form using AJAX

We are now in the second half of the form section, submitting the form. We have disabled the default submit behavior of our form and we now need to implement an AJAX form to submit logic.

AJAX is the abbreviation for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML (AJAX). It is not a programming tool, but it is a concept by which you make a network request, get data from the server, and update certain parts of your website without having to reload the entire page.

The name Asynchronous JavaScript And XML might sound confusing but, initially, XML was widely used to exchange data with the server. We can also use JSON/normal text to exchange data with the server.

For submitting the form to the server, I have created a small Node.js ...

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