I am developing some code which is taking some user input, interrogating eBay via xml and then displaying the results. But it is taking a while to run and I would like to put something on screen to reassure the user that something is happening. I think it would be possible to use css to show an animated gif in the middle of the screen and when the script results are ready to display remove the gif again. ie page header image on send xml to ebay process results image off show results page end I know that images can be altered using Javascript, but have been unable to find anything suitable. Or maybe you have another solution, thanks