Search icon CANCEL
Subscription
0
Cart icon
Your Cart (0 item)
Close icon
You have no products in your basket yet
Save more on your purchases now! discount-offer-chevron-icon
Savings automatically calculated. No voucher code required.
Arrow left icon
Explore Products
Best Sellers
New Releases
Books
Videos
Audiobooks
Learning Hub
Conferences
Free Learning
Arrow right icon
Arrow up icon
GO TO TOP
KnockoutJS Web Development

You're reading from   KnockoutJS Web Development Efficiently work with data, web templates, and custom HTML tags using KnockoutJS

Arrow left icon
Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781782161028
Length 178 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Arrow right icon
Author (1):
Arrow left icon
John Farrar John Farrar
Author Profile Icon John Farrar
John Farrar
Arrow right icon
View More author details
Toc

Connecting with AJAX remotely

Using a script tag to load data is definitely not very sophisticated. We are going to improve this by creating the example again, but this time using jQuery to make our AJAX request. We will put this code in a file named ajax.html. We will use the same HTML code as before, but we will add a button to the form using the following lines of code:

Foods (<span data-bind="text: foods"></span>)
<button data-bind="click: pullData">Pull Data</button><br/>
<div data-bind="foreach: {data:foodItems, as: 'food'}">
  <input type="checkbox" data-bind="checkedValue:$data.item, checked: $root.foods" />
  <span data-bind="text: food.itemDisplay"></span><br/>
</div>

The pullData request will be a method/function that we add to our ViewModel. It will be used, at this time, to pull the data from the server and update the View in our browser. Here...

lock icon The rest of the chapter is locked
Register for a free Packt account to unlock a world of extra content!
A free Packt account unlocks extra newsletters, articles, discounted offers, and much more. Start advancing your knowledge today.
Unlock this book and the full library FREE for 7 days
Get unlimited access to 7000+ expert-authored eBooks and videos courses covering every tech area you can think of
Renews at $19.99/month. Cancel anytime