Hi all, I recently heard about the AJAX web technology. I always wondered how gmail is able to give desktop like environment on a web page and now I've learned a good part - how it works. I decided to implement very basic AJAX on my webpage. I am not very good at JavaScript and I need your help. I googled a lot but in vein. So here is the code

Code:
<html><head><title>Ajax Example</title>
<script language="Javascript">
function xmlhttpPost(strURL) {
    var xmlHttpReq = false; 
    var self = this;
    if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
        self.xmlHttpReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
    }
    else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
        self.xmlHttpReq = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
    }
    self.xmlHttpReq.open('POST', strURL, true);
    self.xmlHttpReq.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
    self.xmlHttpReq.onreadystatechange = function() {
        if (self.xmlHttpReq.readyState == 4) {
            updatepage(self.xmlHttpReq.responseText);
        }
    }
    self.xmlHttpReq.send(getquerystring());
}

function getquerystring() {
		var word = value(here);
		qstr = 'w=' + escape(word);
 		return qstr;
}
function updatepage(str){
    document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = str;
}
</script>
</head><body>

<a href="#" onmouseover="JavaScript:xmlhttpPost('ajax.asp');return escape('<div id=result></div>'); return value('1')">Text1</a>

<a href="#" onmouseover="JavaScript:xmlhttpPost('ajax.asp');return escape('<div id=result></div>'); return value('2')">Text2</a>

<a href="#" onmouseover="JavaScript:xmlhttpPost('ajax.asp');return escape('<div id=result></div>'); return value('3')">Text3</a>

<script language="javascript" src="wz_tooltip.js">
</body></html>
What I want is when ever onmouseover is called on Text1,Text2,Text3 it returns some value to a variable 'word' in this case repectively. I hope you understand my problem and val is reading this thread . If you need more info please post.

Any help is much appreciated.

- :S: