Loading pages in the background

There are a few ways which you can do this. However, they all require a little more than HTML (unless you use iframes, which are considered deprecated).

You can use jQuery's .get()** or *javascript .post() functions to retrieve content, and then use the jQuery .html() function to update the content within the webpage. This way, the client does not need to update the page. Instead, just use the ```.click(function() { / callback */ })``` event handler to capture the event by "binding" it to a link, or even a span tag.

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Here is some information on using the jQuery AJAX function (not using post or get, but specifying which).

Here is some information on how to use jQuery .get() or .post().

You can also use AngularJS which relies on jQuery to operate. By creating a controller in Angular, you can then specify the ng-view directive within an HTML element (like a div element). Using the angular-route.js file in the AngularJS package.

Here are some information on Angular's $route service if you would like to read more about it:.

Here is a simplistic way of using $route in a tutorial. Here is the precursor to day 2

Here is another tutorial showing how $route can be used.

There is link prefetching, http://davidwalsh.name/html5-prefetch