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Asked: 2026-06-05T05:24:46+00:00

I would like to know how I can only refresh a specific element in

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I would like to know how I can only refresh a specific element in my website, instead of the whole web page? The element I’m talking about is a flash application that loads quite slow and may experience connection timeouts. I want to enable the user to only refresh that element/falsh app. How do i do that? Below I have an Ajax function that updates an HTML element but not sure how to apply it to my situation.

<head>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function loadXMLDoc() {
            var xmlhttp;
            if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
                xmlhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
            } else { // code for IE6, IE5
                xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            }
            xmlhttp.onreadystatechange = function () {
                if (xmlhttp.readyState == 4 && xmlhttp.status == 200) {
                    document.getElementById("myDiv").innerHTML = xmlhttp.responseText;
                }
            }
            xmlhttp.open("GET", "ajax_info.txt", true);
            xmlhttp.send();
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <div id="myDiv">
        <h2>Let AJAX change this text</h2>
    </div>
    <button type="button" onclick="loadXMLDoc()">Change Content</button>
</body>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Try this:

    function reload(){
    var container = document.getElementById("yourDiv");
    var content = container.innerHTML;
    container.innerHTML= content; 
    
   //this line is to watch the result in console , you can remove it later	
    console.log("Refreshed"); 
}
    <a href="javascript: reload()">Click to Reload</a>
    <div id="yourDiv">The content that you want to refresh/reload</div>

    Hope it works. Let me know

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