As the title say, is this even possible?

Let`s say ther is a text box on the web page. Every now and then, the page should request some data from the server to be displayed in the textbox. Obviously, submitting the entire form is not good for performance since data should be received at intervals of seconds.

Is it possible to get data from the server at preset interval and use it to update only a section of the webpage without submitting the entire page?