never mind - got it to work - i had to put the document.getElementsByTagName('form')['SellSheet'].elements['sellitsheet'].value = url; lind AFTER the call to my display function!

still nothing - it's weird b/c i'll put a document.write in the function and it reads the passed variable but nothing i do gets the text field to populate in firefox or safari.

thanks for the quick reply - but that doesn't work either. in fact, i originally had that string and changed it b/c i saw some post on the net saying firefox couldn't understand that type of syntax....

i have a simple url - <a href="javascript:displayWindow('Slice 2100 (Commercial)');">SLICE 2100 (Commercial)</a>

that passes the the variable in a javascript function -
<script...