A submenu with cf

Question

Hi,

I have a submenu on a page and I want the user to choose an
option without re-sending the current page.

I was going to use the ajax load function in Jquery,(
http://docs.jquery.com/Ajax/load#urldatacallback)
but the amount of users with javascript turned off makes me a bit
nervous. Im using CF8 and was wondering if there is a CF8 way to
load my html into a div without sending the current page?

Anonymous · Answer

I'm afraid what you're asking is impossible without JavaScript. ColdFusion is server side code, the browser thus needs to request from the server what it wants via loading a page. You can use Ajax to do this without a page refresh, but Ajax is JavaScript...so, yeah.

Create your menu the normal page refresh way, the way forms were meant to work. THEN, add on some JavaScript to submit onchange via Ajax. This way, if the user has JS off, they'll just get the old method instead.

It's called "unobtrusive" use of JavaScript. Where both options are available.

Mikey.

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