ok, heres the scenario...

YOu have a page displaying data and you want it to refresh the data every second

- No problem

Now you also want to litter the page with text boxes for inputting and submitting data

- BUT.. your page is refreshing every second so it is constantly clearing whatever is in
the text boxes (thus you need to be an extremely fast typist to get that input in quick and
submit it before the next page refresh)

So, how do you pro's get around this?

I know one method... split the page into two frames and have just read data on one side
and write on the other (but what if you need to graphically/physically put the text box right
next to the value!?)

regards,
darrenYea, you're right, use frames. I guess you're refreshing the page so fast because you want the user to see the most current values for the DB fields. If so, refreshing the page that fast isn't a good solution. You need to Google DataBase Transactions. Basically you store the DB value that the user sees, the value they want entered, and the value that is currently in the DB, if the "old" DB value and the current DB value match, then update the field with the users' value they want to enter.