Paul, > is there a way of having a small pop up window on top of the main parent > window - but having the small pop up window always on top but being ablt to > interact with the parent window below - i know its along short, its just and > idea I'm thinking about. Cross-browser, you would have to use a pseudo-popup, such as an absolutely-positioned div that is styled to appear like a dialog. For IE 5+ only, you can use a modeless dialog [1] that behaves exactly as you describe. James Aylard 1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/reference/methods/showmodele ssdialog.asp