Thanks, Chris - my top two <TD> tags on that level are empty.  Funny that 
FrontPage preview didn't bomb out on that.  Serves me right for using FP!

The DOM navigation looks easier.  Perhaps a little too advanced for me at 
the moment (I'm a self-taught programmer & a biologist!)...

Cheers

Andrew

> Hi Andrew,

> To be more specific about the problem:
>
> "alert(Table1.childNodes[0].childNodes[x+1].childNodes
> [3].nodeType);"
> gives a response of "1" (one more level should reach the textNode)
>
> "alert(Table1.childNodes[0].childNodes[x+1].childNodes
> [3].childNodes.nodeType);"
> gives a response of "undefined" (understandably)
>
> "alert(Table1.childNodes[0].childNodes[x+1].childNodes
> [3].childNodes[0].nodeType);"
> gives no response.  The script will stop at this point.

If the <td> is empty, it will have no text node & therefore bomb out when
you try to access it, you could check for this using something like...

if(Table1.childNodes[0].childNodes[x+1].childNodes[3].childNodes.length > 
0)

before accessing it.

> Is there another way of navigating the table with Javascript?

Yep, you can use the DOM...

var loRows=Table1.getElementsByTagName("TR");
 for(var a=0; a<loRows.length; a++){
  var loCells=loRows.item(a).getElementsByTagName("TD");
  for(var b=0; b<loCells.length; b++){

    do something with the tds here

  }
 }

HTH,

Chris