Use https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax/ instead.

In terminal, run:

pip install git+ssh://git@github.com/GradConnection/django-ajax-tile.git

In settings.py:

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
  ...,
  'tile.middleware.TileMiddleware',
)

INSTALLED_APPS = (
  ...,
  'tile',
)

from django.template.response import TemplateResponse as render
from tile.decorators import tile

@tile("include/test.html", "#container", context_data=['message'], title="what")
def test(request, message):
  template = "test.html"

  return render(request, template, {'message':message,
    'id': 1})

"include/test.html" is the tile template name.

"#container" is the jQuery selector for the element the template content goes into.

context_data is the list of keys to extract from context to pass back to the client.

title is the title the page should change to when the tile is loaded.

The rest of the view function is a normal view function returning a full page. You must use TemplateResponse to use the @tile decorator.

function onclick(e) {
  e.preventDefault();
  tile.get($(this).attr("href"), function(context){
    $("a").click(onclick);
    if (context) {
      $("span").text(context["message"]);
    }
  });
}
$("a").click(onclick);

The first argument is the url of the GET request.

The second argument is a callback function that will be run when the request is complete. context is the data sent back by the server.

The $("a").click(onclick); must be run again since the newly substituted html data hasn't had that run yet. (Though any javascript inside the html will be run.)