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Question

I have put together the following mootools script

 window.addEvent(\'domready\', function() {
    var shouts = \"timed.php\";
    var log = $(\'log_res\');
    f         


        

Answer 1

Can you not do something like this:

function updateData (url, target)
{
  var target = $(target);
  target.innerHTML = 'Please wait...';

  //and the rest of the function
}