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hx-boost
The hx-boost attribute allows you to "boost" normal anchors and form tags to use AJAX instead. This
has the nice fallback that, if the user does not
have javascript enabled, the site will continue to work.
For anchor tags, clicking on the anchor will issue a GET request to the url specified in the href and
will push the url so that a history entry is created. The target is the <body> tag, and the innerHTML
swap strategy is used by default. All of these can be modified by using the appropriate attributes, except
the click trigger.
For forms the request will be converted into a GET or POST, based on the method in the method attribute
and will be triggered by a submit. Again, the target will be the body of the page, and the innerHTML
swap will be used.
Here is an example of some boosted links:
<div hx-boost="true">
<a href="/page1">Go To Page 1</a>
<a href="/page2">Go To Page 2</a>
</div>
Notes
hx-boostis inherited and can be placed on a parent element- Only links that are to the same domain and that are not local anchors will be boosted
- All requests are done via AJAX, so keep that in mind when doing things like redirects