john, ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< > From: spacific at paradise.net.nz > > I am trying to use a document.writeln under certain > conditions. But it always causes the whole page to be > cleared. ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< that is the correct behavior if the page has already finished loading and you then try to write to it. the existing contents will get overwritten by the contents of the call to the write() method. good luck, .jeff http://evolt.org/ jeff at members.evolt.org http://members.evolt.org/jeff/