>>>ok - added the '==' and apparently had an parenthesis issue ('splain to me how this syntax is so dang much better??)
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>>The = does assignment. The == does comparison.
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>>and the whole thing needs to been in paraens.
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if (condition == value) {

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>>>now it's not liking the
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>>> $("#CustomCode").hide();
>>>$("#CustCode").hide();
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>>>Error is "SCRIPT5007: The value of the property '$' is null or undefined, not a Function object"
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>>>CustomCode is the id of a label
>>>CustCode is the id of a textbox
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>>>I want them hidden until they're needed.
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>>>As you can probably tell, I barely have the first vaguest clue of what I'm doing. OJT - gotta love it.
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>>Looks like you don't have jquery loaded on the page. Something like this somewhere:
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>><script src="pathto/jquery.js"...
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>>You can also try jQuery() instead of $().

I thought $() was just shorthand for jQuery(). Are there times when the behavior differs?