Sorry for the delay, been away for Christmas vacation. Ok, gotcha. Depending on the platform, though, it still seems like you should be able to initialize the form data elements w/o an AJAX call, then use AJAX calls for user interaction events, yes-no?

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>It's not a dot net page. I want it to be as light as possible, otherwise I could do it in dot net, php, vfp etc. It's also just an experiment to use AJAX.