Peter-Paul Koch wrote: >> a is not the parent of c. There's a LI element in between. So the >> browser tries to find c as a child node of a and fails. > Sorry, should have read: a is not the parent of b[d]. no problem - I got the meaning. it clarified some of my ideas on DOM as well. -- Kae Verens +----------------------------------+ webworks.ie pay | http://www.webworks.ie | bee play | http://www.contactjuggling.org | boss kae |http://kverens.contactjuggling.org| god