can I refresh a button status without refresing the all page

[raknin]

Hi,

I have a button that can change its staus (like online, offline etc ...). I get the updated status of the button by refreshing the page.
I want that only the button that the status appear on it will be refresh with the updated status, without refreshing the all page. Can someone advise me about this.

Thanks
Ronen

[gits]

hi ...

i've moved your post from the js-articles section to the forum for you ... please don't post questions in the articles sections

kind regards

[raknin]

Sorry for my mistake. What forum is that

[gits]

to your problem: in case you need to retrieve data from the database to do what you want you might use an XMLHttpRequest to do so. it uses a js-driven call that operates in the background and let you update a part of your page without a page refresh ... its called AJAX :) ... have a link at the offsitelinks at top of our js-forum and go through the AJAX-links there for further information and to start learning about it. for a quick-start have a look here

kind regards

[raknin]

Gits,

Thanks, but the status is comming from the internet and not from the database.
I am familliar with Ajax.

[gits]

so could you please be a little bit more specific? how do you retrieve the status?

kind regards

[raknin]

The button can be for example skype button that contains some code behind it, so what I want to run the code periodicaly to see how the status of the user is changing since I get the status from the internet.

Thanks