Rob, Imediately after the innerText post, I posted another message saying exactly what you said above. It did not work in firefox. So I had to change it to: $($('#searchDataTable)[0].rows[rowid].cells[colid]).text();
I think there is something wrong with this forum software, cause I do not see that message...!!! Shawn, thanks for the push in the right(sort of :-)) direction. It always comes does to experience, does'nt it? Anyways, thanks all!