Form Completion
One of the prototypical Ajax use cases is form completion, where a user enters information in a field that causes other fields on the page to change. For example, we can use Ajax to react to the value entered into a Zip Code field, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Form completion (Top: User enters an unknown Zip Code. Bottom: User enters a known Zip Code.)
When the user leaves the Zip Code textfield, we send an Ajax request to the server, passing the current value of the Zip Code field as a request parameter. We associate the Zip Code field with the event handler like this:
The zipChanged function uses Prototype to send the Ajax ...
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