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  <span class="logo dark">&lt;<span class="blue">/</span>&gt; <span class="no-mobile">htm<span class="blue">x</span></span></span>
  <sub class="no-mobile"><i>high power tools for HTML</i></sub>
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<b>NEWS:</b> htmx finished 2nd in the <a href="https://risingstars.js.org/2023/en#section-framework">2023 
JavaScript Rising Stars</a> "Front-end Frameworks" category, just behind React (htmx is a library, btw) and <a href="https://risingstars.js.org/2023/en#section-all">#10 overall</a>!
Thank you to everyone who <a href="https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx">starred</a> us!
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<h2>introduction</h2>

htmx gives you access to [AJAX](@/docs.md#ajax), [CSS Transitions](@/docs.md#css_transitions), [WebSockets](@/docs.md#websockets) and [Server Sent Events](@/docs.md#sse) 
directly in HTML, using [attributes](@/reference.md#attributes), so you can build 
[modern user interfaces](@/examples/_index.md) with the [simplicity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS) and 
[power](https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm) of hypertext

htmx is small ([~14k min.gz'd](https://unpkg.com/htmx.org/dist/)), 
[dependency-free](https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/blob/master/package.json),
[extendable](@/extensions/_index.md), 
IE11 compatible & has **reduced** code base sizes by [67% when compared with react](@/essays/a-real-world-react-to-htmx-port.md)

<h2>motivation</h2>

* Why should only [`<a>`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a) and [`<form>`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/form) be able to make HTTP requests?
* Why should only [`click`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/click_event) & [`submit`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLFormElement/submit_event) events trigger them?
* Why should only [`GET`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Methods/GET) & [`POST`](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Methods/POST) methods be [available](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Methods)?
* Why should you only be able to replace the **entire** screen?

By removing these arbitrary constraints, htmx completes HTML as a [hypertext](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext)

<h2>quick start</h2>

```html
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/htmx.org@1.9.10"></script>
  <!-- have a button POST a click via AJAX -->
  <button hx-post="/clicked" hx-swap="outerHTML">
    Click Me
  </button>
```

The [`hx-post`](@/attributes/hx-post.md) and [`hx-swap`](@/attributes/hx-swap.md) attributes on
this button tell htmx:

> "When a user clicks on this button, issue an AJAX request to /clicked, and replace the entire button with the HTML response"

htmx is the successor to [intercooler.js](http://intercoolerjs.org)

Read the [docs introduction](@/docs.md#introduction) for a more in-depth... introduction.

<h2><a name='book'></a>book</h2>

We are happy to announce the release of [Hypermedia Systems](https://hypermedia.systems), a book on how to build 
[Hypermedia-Driven Applications](@/essays/hypermedia-driven-applications.md) using htmx & more:

<div style="text-align: center;padding: 24px">
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C9S88QV6/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1P0I3GXQK32TN"><img src="/img/hypermedia-systems.png" alt="hypermedia systems"></a>
</div>

<h2>sponsors <iframe src="https://github.com/sponsors/bigskysoftware/button" title="Sponsor htmx" height="32" width="114" style="border: 1px solid gray; border-radius: 12px; float:right"></iframe></h2>


htmx development can be supported via [GitHub Sponsors](https://github.com/sponsors/bigskysoftware?o=esb)


Thank you to all our generous <a href="https://github.com/sponsors/bigskysoftware?o=esb">supporters</a>, including:

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