Create an HTML document that will hold our remote data, and save it with the file name of mydata.html.

In mydata.html, put in some HTML content. This is what I used, but feel free to put your own valid HTML markup:

<p>This is some <strong>remote</strong> data that I requested.</p>

Next we need an HTML document that will be our web page that requests the data from mydata.html. Create this HTML document and place it in the same location as mydata.html.

In our web page HTML document, we place an<a> element that will serve as the trigger for making our Ajax request. This document also has a div where we will place the data we get from mydata.html; give this div an ID of content-holder. In the HTML document, we use the following...