jQuery - load() Method

Description

The load( url, data, callback ) method loads data from the server and places the returned HTML into the matched element.

Syntax

Here is the simple syntax to use this method −

[selector].load( url, [data], [callback] )

Parameters

Here is the description of all the parameters used by this method −

url − A string containing the URL to which the request is sent.
data − This optional parameter represents a map of data that is sent with the request.
callback − This optional parameter represents a function that is executed if the request succeeds

Example

Assuming we have following HTML content in result.html file −

<h1>THIS IS RESULT...</h1>

Following is a simple example a simple showing the usage of this method.

<html>
   <head>
      <title>The jQuery Example</title>
      <script type = "text/javascript" 
         src = "https://www.tutorialspoint.com/jquery/jquery-3.6.0.js">
      </script>
		
      <script type = "text/javascript" language = "javascript">
         $(document).ready(function() {
            $("#driver").click(function(event){
               $('#stage').load('result.html');
            });
         });
      </script>
   </head>
	
   <body>
      <p>Click on the button to load result.html file:</p>
		
      <div id = "stage" style = "background-color:cc0;">
         STAGE
      </div>
		
      <input type = "button" id = "driver" value = "Load Data" />
   </body>
</html>

This should produce following result −

jquery-ajax.htm