OK, thanks. The backend.php makes sense. But I'm not sure how to format the .html file. I tried this and it doesn't work. Do I need to put "$(function" somewhere else?
Bob <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/ TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Collecting Data...</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script> $(function() { $.ajax({ url: "backend.php", cache: false, success: function(html) { $(".target").html(html); } } } </head> <body> <div class="target"></div> <div id="content"></div> <body> </body> </html>