Hi Michael & Paul
Thanks for your replies - both expressions work ! (plus another I worked on prior to your responses). Just have to say thanks for the great jquery community support offerred here While I have your attention - had another question to ask.... Since I am translating the standard hrefs with calls to jquery ajax fpr tje entire CMS how does this effect SEO and other bots that 'spider' through the site Will the bots and search engines "SEE the original HREF'S" and not execute the ajax calls - if so would Paul's approach be better since it amounts to an onClick handler -where the status bar shows original HREF Thanks guys very much appreciated!