Gary,Perhaps the responseText has quotes in the data or some other chars you need to delimit which throughs off the alert function. FireFox and IE both have very good Web Developer plug-ins now which will assist you in many javascript issues.
-eric wood From: "Gary Stainburn"
Can anyone tell me while the following code doesn't work in IE, but does workFirefox? alert("ajax returned"+xmlHttp.responseText); document.getElementById("listdiv").innerHTML=xmlHttp.responseText;