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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook
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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook

by Jay L Johnston
July 2011
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
276 pages
5h 11m
English
Packt Publishing
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Creating a DIV displaying an Ajax form response

The creation of new DOM elements with MooTools is elementary, as is calling asynchronous JavaScript requests, Ajax. Here we combine the two for a very reusable recipe where the results of a form submission are displayed on the same page as the request. Hook the Ajax call up to your server-side script and make form magic. To avoid the necessity of server-side scripting, we call our own HTML markup and display that in this example.

How to do it...

<form action="javascript:" method="get"> <input type="button" id="mybutton" value="Ajax and Response!" onclick="ajax_it();"/> </form> <span id="put_it_here">Waiting for form submission...</span> <script type="text/javascript"> // A // make a new ajax request ...
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