Oh, and in case it matters, the external javascript is using document.write to put the characters on the screen.

Right now you have a most interesting horizontal blog, the first I've seen! But it is keeping me from making sense of what you are talking about - I presume you are in the middle of working on it. So, without trying to verify by looking at your code, may I suggest the following?

Instead of writing <BR>, write &nbsp;

The specific issue with that blog is related to that absurdity -- external blogrolls (maintained by others) are set up to be vertical with entries separated by <BR> tags. With this weird layout, I need them to be horizontal.

So I'd like to write nbsp's, but the code that's writing the <BR> tags is not accessible to me -- and that's the problem. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

Well, you could write a little cgi script that transforms the Javascript on the fly.

Or write a Javascript program that does the same thing. At least, I think you can do that.

Not sure if you want to go to that much trouble.

I wouldn't mind -- I'm just not sure it's possible. The javascript code is writing directly to the page with document.write. I don't know that it's possible, even with another javascript program, to intercept that action. My primary problem is that the original javascript is not accessible to me -- I can find out what it does but I cannot modify it.

Here's an idea: Put the javascripts in their own invisible frames (size 0 by 0). Then write your own scripts in the main body to read the code that the imported javascripts produce, and write them out, making whatever substitutions you want.

David - yep, that's what I was thinking.

I think a CGI script would be easier though.

Thanks for the ideas, both of you. I'll play some and see what I can come up with.