Ajax applications are often no more than a request for a chunk of HTML. This technique, sometimes referred to as Asynchronous HTTP and HTML (AHAH), is almost simple to implement with jQuery. First, we need some HTML to insert, which we'll place in a file called a.html alongside our main document. This secondary HTML file begins as follows:
<div class="entry"> <h3 class="term">ABDICATION</h3> <div class="part">n.</div> <div class="definition"> An act whereby a sovereign attests his sense of the high temperature of the throne. <div class="quote"> <div class="quote-line">Poor Isabella's Dead, whose abdication</div> <div class="quote-line">Set all tongues wagging in the Spanish nation.</div> <div class="quote-line">For ...
