jQuery load() function doesn't work

Question

I am new to the world of JavaScript and I\'m trying to use the function load() to insert another html file. It\' a little bit hard to explain, here is the code:

Answer 1

Why it Doesn't Work

Browser security restrictions can block you from using AJAX functions with content that is accessed through the file:// protocol (i.e. from a local file on your computer, without a web server).

Solution

I run a web server on my pc so that I can avoid all of these problems - back when I was working on a Windows PC, I used WAMP. These days, I use Linux (with Apache, PHP and MySQL) on my computer so I can work in an environment that is closer to the server.