refresh part of page using javascript?

[tangjun]

How to refresh couple of small fields of a web page every a few seconds using javascript? (to avoid window blinking if just call reload)

[Satishpp]

You can change a portion of the client region by using Div or Span

<div id=test1>sometext</div>


so in a script you can do this
test1.innerText = "Some other text";

I am not sure if you can make the script run every few seconds, i.e without a event being fired.

Satish