>>>Thanks Mike, but all I need is get the src= in iframe to accept a variable the way p id="lcDoc" /p does.
>>>It seems that src will only accept an explicit path. Is that possible, and if so, do you know the syntax?
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>>The right way to do it is to use AJAX.
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>>Not only does it work, but it's the proper way to do things, so not only will you be making a website that doesn't look like it was hacked together in 1996, you will also have a new marketable skill.
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>>http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/jquery_ajax.asp
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>>Look how simple the code is:
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>>http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/tryit.asp?filename=tryjquery_ajax1
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>>It doesn't exactly what you want.
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>I write code that like too :-}
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>Kidding aside, it doesn't do exactly what's required - the name of the file to retrieve from the server needs to be dynamic....

See the line of code with the load()? Just use a variable instead of the literal.