thank you very much for putting that out there for me to try.

i used your code

menunr = menunr-1;for (i=1; i <= tabcount[menunr]; i++){if (document.getElementById(tablink_idname[menunr]+i)) document.getElementById(tablink_idname[menunr]+i).className='tab'+i;if (document.getElementById(tabcontent_idname[menunr]+i)) document.getElementById(tabcontent_idname[menunr]+i).style.display='none';} if (document.getElementById(tablink_idname[menunr]+active)) document.getElementById(tablink_idname[menunr]+active).className='tab'+active+'tabactive';if (document.getElementById(tabcontent_idname[menunr]+active)) document.getElementById(tabcontent_idname[menunr]+active).style.display='block';}var timer; counter=0;}
and I still get this:

Webpage error details

User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; GTB6; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Timestamp: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:12:07 UTC


Message: 'document.getElementById(...)' is null or not an object
Line: 27
Char: 279
Code: 0
URI: http://www. orchidlakecandles .com/i...script_tabs.js