Polling
Polling provides a way to repeatedly update the UI using server data. Two polling approaches supported by htmx are fixed-rate polling and load polling.
Fixed-Rate Polling
Fixed-rate polling sends requests at regular intervals.
The following HTML reports the current score of an NFL game. It sends a GET request to the /score endpoint every five seconds. Note the use of hx-trigger value every 5s. The endpoint returns updated score text that replaces the contents of the body element.
| | <html> |
| | <head> |
| | <title>Fixed Rate Polling with htmx</title> |
| | <link rel="stylesheet" href="styles.css" /> |
| | <script src= ... |
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