var http_request = false;
   function makePOSTRequest(url, parameters) {
      http_request = false;
      if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
         http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
         if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
         	// set type accordingly to anticipated content type
            //http_request.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
            http_request.overrideMimeType('text/html');
         }
      } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
         try {
            http_request = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
         } catch (e) {
            try {
               http_request = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) {}
         }
      }
      if (!http_request) {
         alert('Cannot create XMLHTTP instance');
         return false;
      }
      
      http_request.onreadystatechange = alertContents;
      http_request.open('POST', url, true);
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-length", parameters.length);
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
      http_request.send(parameters);
   }

scount=0;

   function alertContents() {
      if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
         if (http_request.status == 200) {
		var statevar = document.getElementById("edstate").value;
		if (statevar == "q") {
		}
		else {
            	//alert(http_request.responseText);
            	result = http_request.responseText;
            	document.getElementById('edspan').innerHTML = result;
	 if (scount=0) window.scrollBy(0,200);
		scount++;
		}
         } else {
            alert('Server is busy..try again now');
         }
      }

   }
   
   function get(obj) {
	var poststr = "edstate=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("edstate").value );
		var dirs=window.location.href.split('/'),
		cdir=dirs[dirs.length-2];
		if(cdir == "page") { var script = "../ed_select.php"; }
		else { var script = "ed_select.php"; }
	makePOSTRequest(script, poststr);
   }