Steve, >I searched around the web a bit for a way to refresh a div tag at set >intervals but haven't found anything that pertains to jquery. I saw >some stuff about prototype and ColdFusion 8, neither of which were any >help. > >Does anyone have a preferred method of doing this? I'd like to be able >to have the div tag refresh at regular intervals and also be triggered >by clicking a link or triggering an event.
There's a plug-in called "Heartbeat" you can use repeat an AJAX operation at set interval. To trigger an update manually (via a click event or programmatically) you can use the $.ajax() method. -dan