OK Guys/Gals, Here's what hopefully is a simple one that I bet there are 1,000 answers to: In one of my apps where I am collecting information securely, upon submission I wish to popup a box/panel/etc message in the middle of the screen that says something like "please wait, blah blah blah". I CANNOT have any NORMAL HTML output because behind the scenes I am performing some HTTPRequest stuff to a card processor and if the return is successful I need to be able to issue a Location: operation to branch to a non-secured site. Most likely this display should be accomplished using javascript and within that realm there are numerous methods to accomplish that. The simplest of all is the window.open scheme with creates a new instance of the browser sized as requested. The problem here is that many/most of the newer browsers are all BLOCKING popups (I know all mine do) because they have been abused by spammers. No problem there. However, it negates the purpose and usefulness of this mechanism. I tried playing with a non-displayed division and using a javascript function triggered by the onsubmit or onclick events to alter the div to display, however, I could NOT get by javascript property errors when trying to implement it. So, are there any Luggers out there who have done this before and have a favorite method for achieving this task that they would like to share with this group? Well, at least share with me??? I know we should be meeting tomorrow but my brain is working and many who usually respond to these questions do not attend meetings. So, please post your ideas, favorite methods, or tell me I'm crazy! Thanks for the input/feedback and I'll see some of you tomorrow evening (no NUDE attendees). Bob
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