I would have to see the full HTML of a result page to know for sure (I can't access the url given in your other post) but the link to the .js file you gave in the other post gives me a clue.

Something in the page triggers calling the loadTimer() method (possibly a <body onLoad="loadTime()">) which then polls the loaded variable to see if the page is finished loading. Once loaded has a true value, it then looks at the values in numHits and numPages and writes those to the page using the .innerHTML() or .innerText() methods in javascript.

So without seeing the actual HTML of the page, I'm not sure but I'd bet there's a var numHits = x somewhere in the page (probably at the bottom).

In reply to Re: refreshing a page/session without re-submitting search by bpphillips
in thread refreshing a page/session without re-submitting search by seaver

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