Hi. I copied parts of the ajax-examples in Agile Rails prog. and modified it so it searched for zip-codes. The result is displayed in search.rhtml. The first version looked like this, I liked the look of the "add to cart" in the depot-example. :class => ''button1'' is originally addtocart which I renamed in the .css-file. <% for city in @cities %> <%= link_to (city.postalcode, :action => ''observer'', :class => ''button1'') %> <%=h city.name %> <% end %> Fairly trivial. When I wanted to "ajax-ify" link_to I wrote: <% for city in @cities %> <%= link_to_remote (city.postalcode, :update => ''p_search'', :url => {:action => ''observer''}, :class => ''button1'') %> <%=h city.name %> <% end %> Now this nice css-button1 looks like a plain href. How can I retain the css-created look? regards Claus