As far as I remember you can do this by calling a page with the "Please Wait" message on, and then have that page call the "real" page via JavaScript. Untested: <script Language="JavaScrip"> self.document.location.href = "the_real_page.htm"; </script> It's hacksish, and will probably cause odd behavoiur in some browser, but you can test that. I do remember having used the method a few times in the past. regards Max M d.houghton@wideawake.co.uk wrote:

Hi

I have a number of external scripts which can take some time to return. How can I display a 'Please wait' or similar message to the user until the script has finished and then update the page.

Thanks

Dean Houghton

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