Hi Len,

Thanks for the help and the links. You've to be rescuing me a lot lately and I appreciate it.

Mike

>This can be dependant on the browser used, but the latest versions tend to be converging on the same techniques. Whatever browser, there are several ways of doing this. For IE6, possibly the easiest is to give the paragraph a unique ID :
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><p id="para1">This is the initial text to be displayed</p>
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>this can then be modified with
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>para1.innerHTML="This is the modified text"
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>or following the full hierarchy
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>document.body.all.para1.innerHTML="This is the modified text"
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>The following links may be of use :
>http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/WD-DOM-Level-1-20000929/
>This is the standard for the DOM, which IE6 follows to a large extent, other browsers follow it to some degree too.
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>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/dhtml_reference_entry.asp
>This is the IE specific information
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>http://www.w3schools.com/dhtml/default.asp
>A comprehensive tutorial on DHTML, with lots of modifiable examples eg
>http://www.w3schools.com/dhtml/tryit.asp?filename=trydhtml_dom_innertext