AJAXifying your site’s navigation

This post is inspired in Refreshing DIV content with AJAX. However this code does not actually automatically refresh the contents of a DIV but it refreshes them when the user clicks a link. The implementation of the code below allows to refresh the contents as mentioned, but the content retrieved can be different every time. This is very useful to make a website work in a similar way as with frames, but with more advantages and without the disadvantages of frames.

I provide the code necessary to achieve this purpose but I don’t present it like a step-to-step tutorial. This is because I guess that for anyone with minimal knowledge of HTML and JavaScript is totally self-explanatory and because I would prefer you to make your website look like you want it to rather than like my post tells you to.

You can see a demo page with AJAX navigation here.

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