I pasted what you posted in. The page just displays this" $(function() { $.ajax({ url: "backend.php", cache: false, success: function(html) { $(".target").html(html); } }); Should the 'function' be between <head> and </head>?
This is the current .html file: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/ TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Collecting Data...</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script> $(function() { $.ajax({ url: "backend.php", cache: false, success: function(html) { $(".target").html(html); } }); </head> <body> <div class="target"></div> <div id="content"></div> </body> </html>