I'm trying to change the content of a div with Ajax, however nothing happens... could someone help see what I'm doing wrong?
As far as i can see I'm not missing anything, but the buttons don't connect through. I am running XAMPP and apache is turned on.
Index Page
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta name="author" content="Malecia Legodi">
<meta name="description" content="Reload Website">
<script language="JavaScript" src="javascript.js"></script>
</head>
<body style="background-color:green">
<div>
<nav>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<input type="button" id="home" value="Home"/>
</td>
<td>
<input type="button" id="contact" value="contact" />
</td>
</table>
</nav>
<section>
<div id="content" >
<h1>Content Review Summary</h1>
<p>
aaa...
</p>
<p>
bbb...
</p>
</div>
</section>
<footer align="center">© Reload Website</footer>
</div>
</body>
</html>
contact page:
<h1>Content Review Summary</h1>
<p>
ccc...
</p>
<p>
ddd...
</p>
Javascript.js
function initiate(){
content = document.getElementById('content');
var home = document.getElementById('home');
var contact = document.getElementById('contact');
home.addEventListener('click', readHome, false);
contact.addEventListener('click', readContact, false);
}
function readHome(){
var url = "home.html";
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.addEventListener('load', showContent, false);
request.open("GET", url, true);
request.send();
}
function readContact(){
var url = "contact.html";
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.addEventListener('load', showContent, false);
request.open("GET", url, true);
request.send();
}
//function showContent() to add data into your
function showContent(e){
//add data to secContent
content.innerHTML = e.target.responseText;
}
//use the listener to load your initiate() function
window.addEventListener('load', initiate, false);
change the div id content to secContent"
Also change:
content = document.getElementById('content');
to
content = document.getElementById('secContent');
As well as:
content.innerHTML = e.target.responseText;
to
secContent.innerHTML = e.target.responseText;
Your javascript's last couple of blocks of code are exactly alike to an example I was given at college (Although the example in question was only reading a single .txt file rather than several htmls it had the same problem) . I managed to get it to work by the method mentioned above. Hopefully it will help you as well.