using inner-HTML. (Using a makes no difference). In Firefox it >> paints nothing. In Internet Explorer 8 it works perfectly. >> >> I cannot give a URL as an example as this is for an intranet behind a firewall that >> I access via VPN. >> >> You probably can't help me, but it is worth a shot. >> > --cut-- > Make up a test page that attempts to modify an element using innnerhtml in an java > script that happens on mouseover or something and see if you can dupe it. > > Note also that IE does not distinguish between the name ="x" and id="x" element > indentifiers: Sometimes that aloows nam,eing bugs to go unnoticed in IE. Looks like a good guess. I had some dev issues when everything looked okay but assignments did not work - because of wrong id... /Str.