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    <p>As of current I am learning to use JavaScript to create web applications. I have just finished developing a hangman game (code will be provided later on). I have used an array of words to get a random word to play with. But as a next step I want to use an XMLHttpRequest to get a random word from a separate website, I was wondering if someone could point me towards a tutorial or give me some information on how to start! Thanks in advance!</p> <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt; var myWords = new Array("first", "hello", "goodbye", "random", "word", "last"); var item = myWords[Math.floor(Math.random() * myWords.length)]; var length = item.length; var guessedLetters = ""; var error = 0; function partialWords(item, letters) { var returnLetter = ""; for (i = 0; i &lt; item.length; i++) { if (letters.indexOf(item[i]) !== -1) { returnLetter = returnLetter + item[i]; } else { returnLetter = returnLetter + '_'; } } return returnLetter; } function load() { var input = document.getElementById("hangmanID").value; var myWords2 = (item.indexOf(input) &gt;= 0); if (myWords2 === false) { console.log("That letter is not in the word"); document.getElementById("hangmanID").value = ""; document.getElementById("error").innerHTML = "That letter was wrong!"; document.getElementById("success").innerHTML = ""; error++; if (error &gt; 0) { document.getElementById('hangmanImg').innerHTML = "&lt;img src='assets/" + error + ".png'&gt;"; } else { document.getElementById('hangmanImg').innerHTML = "No Errors yet!"; } } else { console.log("That letter is correct"); var string = item.indexOf(input, 0); console.log(string); document.getElementById("hangmanID").value = ""; document.getElementById("success").innerHTML = "That letter was right!"; document.getElementById("error").innerHTML = ""; } guessedLetters = guessedLetters + input; document.getElementById('hangman').innerHTML = partialWords(item, guessedLetters); document.getElementById("lettersUsed").innerHTML = guessedLetters; } &lt;/script&gt; </code></pre> <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM ALLOWED TO USE JSONP</p>
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    1. COSuggestion: Use a library (jQuery)/framework (Bootstrap/Angular/..etc.) to do this, it's already been implemented hundreds of times. But if this is a learning exercise, fine :P
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    2. CO@Populus I would love to as I like jQuery, however as I'm learning JavaScript as a module in University jQuery is out of the question
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    3. COIf the other website is in other domain, be aware of [Same-origin policy](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Same_origin_policy_for_JavaScript)
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