JQuery Ajax help

Question

Hi. I am creating a portfolio page for m personal site. I have a slider with a bunch of anchors that relate to projects I have worked on, each one contains a client logo that when clicked should load a html page into a div on the same page. I would like to use JQuery to achieve this my question is which method would I use load() or ajax(). This is not something I have done before so I'm a little confused what the difference is.

Also if it makes any difference to my question I will be making the site content managed with MODX very soon.

Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

load() is just a shortcut for ajax() method with certain options. If you only need to fetch page and place it in the dom you can use load() method. If you need more control over the ajax request or you need to call it with some other options then go for ajax()