Vae Guide

Using AJAX

Some Vae tags utilize an attribute called ajax, which gives a the designer the ability to specify a div to load content into, asychronously. This can be useful when redirecting to a confirmation page after a user submits a form, displaying errors, or any time you’d like to load content without completely refreshing a page.

Let’s use the ajax attribute in the <v:a> tag to load the contents of an html page in a div. Say on our website we’d like a link for people to click if they have a question, which would then display a form to send us an email. Here’s the code we’d use to implement that:

<h3><v:a href="contact" ajax="contact">Have a question?</v:a></h3>
<div id="contact"></div>

Our contact.html page would then contain something like:

<div>
 <v:formmail to="[email protected]" redirect="confirmed.html">
  Your Name: <v:text_field name="Name" /><br /><br>
  Your Question: <v:text_area name="Comments" />
  <br><input type="submit" />
  </v:formmail>
</div>

The link before it’s clicked:

And the result of clicking the link: