Write internal link with AJAX

Question

I am trying to write some of my first jquery scripts but I'm having some problem... My page have a long text with lot of internal links ( <a href="/contents/Foo.htm" class=.internal>Foo</a> ). I'd like that when you click on one of the .internal links, the href path will be opened inside the <div id="article">.

var InternalLink = function() {
    $(".internal").click(function(){
        var path =  $(this).attr("href");
        $.ajax({
            url: "path",
            success: function(data) {
                $('#article').html(data);
            }
        });
    });    
};

I wrote the code shown below and it work perfectly but I am trying to generalize the code to every link with internal class:

$("#article_01").click(function(){
    $.ajax({
        url: 'contents/article_01.htm',
        success: function(data) {
            $('#article').html(data);
        }
    });
});

Answer 1

<a href="/contents/Foo.htm" class="internal" data-ref="article_01">Foo</a>

JS:

$(".internal").click(function(){
    var path =  this.href;
    var div = $(this).data('ref');
    $.ajax({
        url: path,
        success: function(data) {
            $('#'+div).html(data);
        }
    });
    return false; // so the link does *not* follow through
});    

So now all you have to do is change the data-ref to point to the div you want the html to load inside of.