Question

Can someone please show me the basic syntax for loading a page via AJAX just using javascript– not jquery? load() method?

xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();

Where do I go from here?

Answer 1

You will write more lines without jQuery, in jQuery it will done in 2 lines.

Anyway, here is the code

without jQuery

var xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function()
{
   if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4)
   {
        alert(xmlhttp.responseText);
    }
}
xmlhttp.open('GET', 'http://www.google.com', true);
xmlhttp.send(null);

if you want to do some POST stuffs

xmlhttp.open("POST",'http://www.google.com', true);
xmlhttp.send();

You also need to do checking for IE

see this link for more understanding – XMLHttpRequest

with jQuety

$.get('http://www.google.com', function(responseText) {
    alert(responseText);
});