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Hi folks, I'm currently in the process of putting together a simple(ish) web page to display a couple of frames and have an updating ticker box on there which reads the contents to display from a text file on the server. Now I've been playing around with this which does pretty much what I want... http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/ajaxticker.htm When the page loads and the script runs, it loads the contents of the text file into the memory and then goes through each item one after the other. However, what I want is something that will automatically update itself, so if for instance anything gets added to the text file that it picks it up when it cycles through again. At the moment to get it to do this, I've put some javascript in the main page with the ticker on that just refreshes the page every 60 seconds (refresh as if the user had pressed the F5 key). This however causes a very quick flash on the screen when the page reloads which is a slight bit annoying. I wondered if anyone would be able to suggest (if it's possible) what I'd need to add to the javascript to make it automatically reload the text file once it has cycled through each item in the text file but without reloading the whole page (I just want the javascript to reload the text file into it's array). I'm pretty clueless when it comes to javascript. I can understand little bits of it but my knowledge isn't enough to add this feature, so if anyone can suggest any ways of doing this then it would be great. Ta, Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html