An overview of jquery.ajax and making a request to the server
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OK perhaps I have read too many posts on this subject and now I am confused. 

Can someone please give a brief overview of the process to follow in order to make an ajax request in Jquery and pick up the results of the call.

I suppose question 1 is would you elect to use jquery over javscript to make the xhr request?

I can see perfectly well how the javascript approach works, it make sense and is easy to follow. But various articles point to the benefit of using jquery claiming that

("#input_Field1").load("ajax_Request.php"); is all you need to make the asynchronous call.

If this is the case what are you supposed to do with jquery.ajax together with its settings and global event handlers and how does this impact on the .load

Many Thanks

