>Judging by what you are saying, I think that either the page is being dynamically altered via browser-side DHTML operations using javascript, or the "site" you are using is actually a frameset. Either way, that makes things more complicated than traversing a frameless, static DOM. Especially with DHTML, I believe that what you see when you do a "view source" does not necessarily reflect the current contents of the DOM. It instead reflects what the browser has cached from the web server.

I haven't looked recently, but the raw HTML was something you would get from the IPersist*-interfaces, whereas the .documentElement and other DOM methods at least give you a modified version as interpreted by IE. AFAIR "view source" reflects the raw HTML.

HTH

thomas