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Mar 02.2006

I’m new to HTML, JavaScript, etc. but need to design a page for a very narrow use. I’ve written a Python server side script that gathers data about some changing files. I’d like the user to have a page that has an area that can be updated by a call to the Python script – not the whole page. That is, the person brings up the page, it calls the script and the data are displayed. Later the person clicks on a button and the data are updated. (Actually clicking on the button will start a timer for updates every n minutes but that’s a detail.)

What’s a suitable object for the display area? I had thought it was a frame …?

TIA

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@KDLAMar 02.2006 — <DIV> might be better.

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@RandomWalkauthorMar 02.2006 — <DIV> might be better.

KDLA[/QUOTE]

Can the contents of the DIV block be changed dynamicaly?
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@KDLAMar 02.2006 — Yes, if you code it that way. I've got a doc. that I'm working with that creates divs, based on js scripting and internal css, dynamically.
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@KravvitzMar 02.2006 — You can use [url=http://www.google.com/search?q=AJAX+%7Etutorial]AJAX[/url] to do that or you could use an iframe. They both have advantages and disadvantages.

[url=http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2006/January/javas.php]Keep in mind that about 10% of Internet users use a browser that doesn't have JavaScript enabled.[/url]
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@RandomWalkauthorMar 04.2006 — Thanks, for this particular page its use will be in-house for only one user! I noticed yesterday that IFRAMES work differently on Opera, Firefox, and IE.
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