That was it Richard. thanks. I ended up using livequery to rebind the click handler
$('#navigation [EMAIL PROTECTED]"#"]').livequery('click', function(event) { $('#navigation').empty().append(hex); . ..... that way the append content acts like it used to. you can see it in action here --> http://studio4nine.com/html2/index.html the whole idea was to be able to de link the link you clicked on. a friend of mine helped with setting that up based on the hash in the URL. that way you can deep link the site, since it's only 1 html page. kind of a goofy experiment, but i think it worked out cool. thanks again. gary.