Greetings, I''m just learning but I don''t see why this doesn''t work. I''m using plain html and prototype 5.0. Nothing fancy. There are two files. x.html and y.html. The test was to see if I could periodically dump y.html into a region of x.html. y.html in its entirety is ''<p>Test paragraph.</p>'' My drill was to read y.html a number of times, update a monitor paragraph each time and store the results of each read in a different paragraph. It works as I expected in FF(1.5,1.6 & 2.0). It doesn''t work for me wit IE(6 & 7). In IE there are no errors. It updates the monitor once, the dump never. I notice that the result of last read is not dumped into the holding element. I presume that that has to do with the status being set before it updates. Could that be having the baleful effect on IE? I''ve tried it asynchronous = true/false and it doesn''t matter. x.html is: <html> <head> <title>Test Page</title> <script src="/javascripts/prototype.js" type="text/javascript"></ script> </head> <body> <h1>test</h1> <div id="notice" class="error"></div> <p>line 0:<span id="testdiva" class="testdiv"></span></p> <p>line 1:<span id="testdivb" class="testdiv"></span></p> (<p id="holddiv"></p>) <script type="text/javascript"> var counter = 0; var X = document.getElementsByClassName(''testdiv''); for (i=0; i < X.length; i++ ) { counter += 1; Element.update(X[i], ''This is a test preload: ''+i); } var tmptest = new Ajax.PeriodicalUpdater( { failure: ''notice'', success: ''holddiv'' }, ''y.html'', { frequency: 5, insertion: Insertion.Bottom, onSuccess: function() { var x = $(''testdiva''); var t = x.innerHTML; Element.update( x, t+"<br/>count: "+counter); if ( ++counter >= 6 ) { tmptest.stop(); } } } ); </script> </body> </html> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-spinoffs-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---