Thanks a lot, Jörn. I did try twice to post a detailed reply to your reply, but nothing's appeared here so it looks like it's fallen into a cyber black hole. No bother. Incorporating your very useful help I've managed to create a revised and working test at:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~ntzfr/test/ajax/jquery/jquery_test1.html Looks like I need to put a day or two aside to really, really get under the skin of jQuery... Cheers Fred
