Sorry to be a pain, but I need more AJAX javascript help :(

[AgmLauncher]

Here are the functions I use (major thanks to James Kassemi for the tutorial!!) to get a new item (in this case an html file) to display inside the div tags.

//get function
function get_strategyindex(){
	http.open('get','strategyindex.htm');
	http.onreadystatechange = display_content; 
	http.send(null);
}
//display function
function display_content(){
	if(http.readyState == 4){
		var response = http.responseText;
		document.getElementById('content').innerHTML = response;
	}

What I'd like to be able to do is open just an image instead of an html file if that's possible. Thanks again for the help, sorry to be such a noob 😛

[LoganK]

Show us your whole code...

BTW, where is http defined? It looks like you're using a variable called "http" but you don't even define it, much less assign it an XMLHttprequest.

[solodesignz]

Do you want to just display an image?
you wouldnt really need "AJAX" for that.. just regular ol' javascript

function display_content(img, alttag){
	document.getElementById('content').innerHTML = "<img src=\"" + img + "\" alt=\""+alttag+"\" />";
}

display_content("strategyindex.jpg", "Strategy Index");

Or if you put a <img src="strategyindex.jpg" alt="Strategy Index" /> inside that html file it should load it up
But you do need to define the XMLHttprequest and stuff, like the person before me said

(i wrote this in this little box, so the quote syntax might be a bit off, not sure )

[LoganK]

The "little box"? I love people's euphamisms for things 🙂

True, if all you need to do is display an image, then use a simple JS function for that. It doesn't even look like you're getting anything dynamic - just a simple, static HTML page. So why are you using AJAX?

[AgmLauncher]

It will be dynamic eventually, Im just doing some dry run testing to measure graphics performance on our server. I have all the other stuff defined in the file, just didnt want to bother posting it all. All I needed to know was how to replace an image so I can do some testing.

I guess more specifically what I really want to do is have a link on the page which changes the background image of a table. Is that possible?

[LoganK]

Yes, through JavaScript. I don't know the exact property, but if you make your table have an ID of "table", you can do something like "document.getElementById('table').background = 'img.jpg';". Again, I don't know the exact property - it might be "bgimage" instead of background. But at least it's a start! 🙂