Requests can be triggered in different ways.

The default is click, but you can fire a request on any browser-generated event, like mouseenter or keyup or even a specific keypress.

You do that using hx-trigger:

<button 
  hx-get='/data' 
  hx-swap='innerHTML' 
  hx-target='#data'
  hx-trigger='mouseenter'>
  Load fresh data
</button>

It doesn’t have to be an event.

htmx offers other ways to fire events, like polling. Use every 5s to fire a GET request every 5 seconds: hx-trigger='every 5s'

Or use load to load just once after 10 seconds: hx-trigger='load delay:10s'

Lessons in this unit:

0:	Introduction
1:	Why htmx
2:	The core idea of htmx
3:	Installing htmx
4:	Doing a GET request
5:	Swap
6:	POST request
7:	Targets
8:	Loading indicator
9:	Confirming actions, and prompts
10:	▶︎ Triggers
11:	Request headers
12:	Response headers
13:	Events
14:	Redirect after request
15:	Send files using htmx.ajax()
16:	Perform something on page load
17:	Conditionally hide HTML elements based on HTMX request status
18:	htmx + Alpine template tag
19:	htmx, include hidden input fields outside of a form
20:	htmx trigger request via JS event