slight syntax errorthis was your code $(function() { $.ajax({ url: "backend.php", cache: false, success: function(html) { $(".target").html(html); } } }
this is what it should be $(function() { $.ajax({ url: "backend.php", cache: false, success: function(html) { $(".target").html(html); } }); }); On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 2:48 PM, bobslf <bob...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > OK, thanks. The backend.php makes sense. But I'm not sure how to > format the .html file. I tried this and it doesn't work. Do I need to > put "$(function" somewhere else? > > Bob > > > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/ > TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> > <head> > <title>Collecting Data...</title> > <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> > <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script> > > $(function() { > $.ajax({ > url: "backend.php", > cache: false, > success: function(html) { > $(".target").html(html); > } > } > } > > > </head> > <body> > > <div class="target"></div> > <div id="content"></div> > <body> > </body> > </html> > > > > > > >