jQuery AJAX request demo

HTML

<a href="#" onclick="return getSuccessOutput();"> test success </a> | 
<div id="output">waiting for action</div>

CSS

a {
    padding: 0.2em;
}
a:hover {
    background-color: #02AAEE;
}
#output {
    display: block;
    margin-top: 8px;
    padding: 1%;
    border: 1px solid #666;
    background-color: #efefef;
    
}

JavaScript

// handles the click event, sends the query
function getSuccessOutput() {
    $.ajax({
        url:'/echo/js/?js=hello%20world!',
        complete: function (response) {
            $('#output').html(response.responseText);
        },
    });
    return false;
}