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JavaScript Step by Step
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JavaScript Step by Step

by Steve Suehring
June 2013
Beginner
482 pages
11h 16m
English
Microsoft Press
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Chapter 19. Getting data into JavaScript

After completing this chapter, you will be able to

  • Understand the architecture of a JavaScript-based web application.

  • Understand the basics of AJAX.

The JavaScript you’ve seen so far in this book works with page events to change the behaviors and look and feel of pages, and does a little validation of forms. A widely used feature of JavaScript is to be able to obtain and work with data, sending it and receiving it from a server. The “data“ in this case can be anything: flight times, prices, lists of the types of insects found in a region, or even entire webpages. This chapter examines Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, the method known as AJAX, to obtain and work with data to and from a server.

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