What is AJAX?
Ajax (shorthand for asynchronous JavaScript and XML) is a group of interrelated web development techniques used on the client-side to create interactive web applications. With Ajax, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. The use of Ajax techniques has led to an increase in interactive or dynamic interfaces on web pages. Data is usually retrieved using the XMLHttpRequest object. Despite the name, the use of JavaScript and XML is not actually required, nor do the requests need to be asynchronous.
Ajax is often mistaken for a programming language, when in reality it is more of a standard or technique used to create better, more interactive web applications. AJAX is used to create more responsive web pages by loading certain areas of a page, instead of an entire page.