Hi Len

Thanks for your reply, it was a big help

I am getting an error "object required " when I reach the last line of code.

I should explain, that I am calling this code via VBA

Set oExplorer = New InternetExplorer
oExplorer.navigate ("http://sunlib-st.com:1234/visualhistory/visualhistory.jsp")

oExplorer.Visible = True

Set oDoc = oExplorer.document

TxtBox = oDoc.getElementById("pattern")

TxtBox.innerText = "IMNTADD" *

* the error occurs here

at this point the TxtBox is an object, but, I can not see any properties attached to the box via the debug screen.

Do you have any ideas ?

Hope you can help

Regards

Steven