Question

I would like to create views, similar to MVC, whereas I can plug HTML into a DIV shadow box that is not originally loaded with the page. The site would need to retrieve the markup via an ajax call upon request. I can invision it being possible retrieving direct html from a data source, but I would like to design the site to be able to contain a folder, with essentially, views that are stored as a physical medium. Is it possbile to retrieve a physical page using ajax and plug that into a target div?

Answer 1

Not quite sure if that is what you mean, but maybe the load function can help you:

$("#myDiv").load("url/to/ressource.html");

You can also add a selector to the url, to get only parts of the loaded page

$("#myDiv").load("url/to/ressource.html body");