Looping getElementById

I’m a javascript newer than newbie. I’m trying to write a script (for greasemonkey) that will continuously check the contents of a div for changes.

Thru a little searching and hours of trial and error I’ve got this to work…

[code]
divstate = (document.getElementById(‘state’).innerHTML);
alert(divstate);
[/code]

It works and will pop up the contents of the div with the ID state, once.

Everytime I try to stick it in a loop, it either pops up regardless of what’s in the div, or creates an endless loop that crashes my browser.

[code]
var endvalue = “OFF”

while (document.getElementById(‘state’).innerHTML != endvalue) {
divstate = (document.getElementById(‘state’).innerHTML);
if (divstate = endvalue) {
alert(divstate);
}
}
[/code]

I have tried a do while too but get the same results.

What am I doing wrong?

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