I am trying to auto populate a links menu from an external page without manually changing them. My menu has 12 categorys and I would like to retreive 4 links in each category from an external page, selecting a category brings up a page with 4 to 10 links in the selected category. In the code below category number1 has been selected. please help me with a loop to auto populate the links in 12 categorys with 4 links each...even if only one category is populated after manual category selection would still be a big help. Thanks /* ---------------------------------------external articles------------------------------ */ /* -------------item/category selection 1 thru 12 --------------------*/ <td class="num">1.</td><td class="selected">num1</td></tr> <tr><td class="num">2.</td><td><a href="">selected page link</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="num">3.</td><td><a href="">selected page link</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="num">4.</td><td><a href="">selected page link</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="num">5.</td><td><a href="">selected page link</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="num">6.</td><td><a href="">selected page link</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="num">7.</td><td><a href="">selected page link</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="num">8.</td><td><a href="">selected page link</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="num">9.</td><td><a href="">selected page link</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="num">10.</td><td><a href="">selected page link</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="num">11.</td><td><a href="">selected page link</a></td></tr> <tr><td class="num">12.</td><td><a href="">selected page link</a> /* -------------end item/category selection 1 thru 12 --------------------*/ /* ---------------------------external page with news atricles--------------- */ <b>News Articles</b> <div class="msc-result"> <div class="ms-newsResult ms-result"> <div class="ms-title"><a target="_blank" class="ms-title" href="http://www.xyz.com">bla bla:<b>keyword</b>short description</a></div> <div class="ms-publisher">xyz News</div> <div class="ms-publishedDate"> - Aug 05, 2011</div> <div class="ms-relativePublishedDate"> - 8 hours ago</div> <div class="ms-snippet">headline<b>keyword</b>description text<b>...</b></div> <div class="ms-watermark"><a target="_blank" class="ms-watermark" href="http://xyz.com/faq.html">clipped from my articles - 8/2011</a></div></div></div> <div class="msc-result"> <div class="ms-newsResult ms-result"> <div class="ms-title"><a target="_blank" class="ms-title" href="http://www.xyz.com">bla bla: <b>keyword</b>short description</a></div> <div class="ms-publisher">xyz News</div> <div class="ms-publishedDate"> - Aug 05, 2011</div> <div class="ms-relativePublishedDate"> - 8 hours ago</div> <div class="ms-snippet">headline<b>keyword</b>description text<b>...</b></div> <div class="ms-watermark"><a target="_blank" class="ms-watermark" href="http://xyz.com/faq.html">clipped from my articles - 8/2011</a></div></div></div> <div class="msc-result"> <div class="ms-newsResult ms-result"> <div class="ms-title"><a target="_blank" class="ms-title" href="http://www.xyz.com">bla bla: <b>keyword</b>short description</a></div> <div class="ms-publisher">xyz News</div> <div class="ms-publishedDate"> - Aug 05, 2011</div> <div class="ms-relativePublishedDate"> - 8 hours ago</div> <div class="ms-snippet">headline<b>keyword</b>description text<b>...</b></div> <div class="ms-watermark"><a target="_blank" class="ms-watermark" href="http://xyz.com/faq.html">clipped from my articles - 8/2011</a></div></div></div> <div class="msc-result"> <div class="ms-newsResult ms-result"> <div class="ms-title"><a target="_blank" class="ms-title" href="http://www.xyz.com">bla bla: <b>keyword</b>short description</a></div> <div class="ms-publisher">xyz News</div> <div class="ms-publishedDate"> - Aug 05, 2011</div> <div class="ms-relativePublishedDate"> - 8 hours ago</div> <div class="ms-snippet">headline<b>keyword</b>description text<b>...</b></div> <div class="ms-watermark"><a target="_blank" class="ms-watermark" href="http://xyz.com/faq.html">clipped from my articles - 8/2011</a></div></div></div> <div class="msc-result"> <div class="ms-newsResult ms-result"> <div class="ms-title"><a target="_blank" class="ms-title" href="http://www.xyz.com">bla bla: <b>keyword</b>short description</a></div> <div class="ms-publisher">xyz News</div> <div class="ms-publishedDate"> - Aug 05, 2011</div> <div class="ms-relativePublishedDate"> - 8 hours ago</div> <div class="ms-snippet">headline<b>keyword</b>description text<b>...</b></div> <div class="ms-watermark"><a target="_blank" class="ms-watermark" href="http://xyz.com/faq.html">clipped from my articles - 8/2011</a></div></div></div> /* ---------------------------------------end external articles------------------------------ */ /* -----------------display links page (ms publisher) will be link text---------------- */ /* -----------------Category is num1 thru 12 selection at top---------------- */ <div id="my_menu"> <ul> <li><a href=""><img src=""; 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