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*high power tools for HTML*

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## Introduction

htmx is a set of extensions (attributes, request headers, etc.) that help you build 
[modern UI](https://htmx.org/examples) with the [simplicity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HATEOAS) and 
[power](https://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm) of HTML. 

htmx is small ([~6k min.gz'd](https://unpkg.com/htmx.org/dist/)), 
[dependency-free](https://github.com/bigskysoftware/htmx/blob/master/package.json),
[extendable](https://htmx.org/extensions),
IE11 compatible & you can try it out quickly & easily, without a huge rewrite.

## Quick Start

```html
  <!-- Load from unpkg -->
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/htmx.org@0.0.4"></script>
  <!-- have a button POST a click via AJAX -->
  <button hx-post="/clicked" hx-swap="outerHTML">
    Click Me
  </button>
```

The `hx-post` and `hx-swap` attributes tell htmx:

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

htmx is based on [intercooler.js](http://intercoolerjs.org) and is the successor to that project.

## haiku

    javascript fatigue:
    longing for a hypertext 
    already in hand

## Website & Docs

[https://htmx.org](https://htmx.org)

[https://htmx.org/docs](https://htmx.org/docs)