Hi Rick,

Is jQuery a part of AJAX? Or it should be a separate download (free?)?

Thanks again for your help.

>Do yourself a favor and think about using a JavaScript library like jQuery, Prototype, MooTools etc.
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>It will do most of this sort of stuff for you and more importantly do it correctly for most browser. Not to mention that you get extensive functionality for doing client side development.
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>I personally *LOVE* jQuery and it's basically made me seriously reconsider using much more client side code than I ever used before because it simplifies document manilpulation so much.
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>Most of the things you're trying to build are built into jQuery and you can apply the functionality against query selectors (a mechanism to select one or many elements on the page) very easily.
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>Before you start spending time building utility functions check out one of the libraries and then decide if you still need to build something on your own. And if you do think about whether you want to build ontop of the library to make your library even simpler.
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