var http_request = false;
   function makeRequest(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;
      //document.write(url+parameters);
      http_request.open('GET', url + parameters, true);
      http_request.send(null);
   }

   function alertContents() {
      if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
         if (http_request.status == 200) {
            //alert(http_request.responseText);
            result = http_request.responseText;
            document.getElementById('textoutput').innerHTML = result;            
         } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         }
      }
   }
   
   function get(obj) {
      var getstr = "?";
      for (j=0; j<obj.length; j++) {
        if (obj[j].className == "npcform") {
         if (obj[j].tagName == "INPUT") {
            if (obj[j].type == "text") {
               getstr += obj[j].name + "=" + obj[j].value + "&";
            }
            if (obj[j].type == "hidden") {
               getstr += obj[j].name + "=" + obj[j].value + "&";
            }
         }   
         if (obj[j].tagName == "SELECT") {
            var sel = obj[j];
            getstr += sel.name + "=" + sel.options[sel.selectedIndex].value + "&";
         }
        }
         
      }
      makeRequest('/cgi-bin/npc', getstr);
   }

function insertContent(obj, identifier, searchStr, divToSwitch) {

  for (j=0; j<obj.length; j++) {
    if (obj[j].value == searchStr ) {
      if (obj[j].id) { 
        var matchStr = obj[j].id.substr(0, identifier.length);
        if (matchStr == identifier) {
          document.getElementById(divToSwitch).style.display = "inline";
          return;
        }
      }
    }
  }
  // turn it off by default
  document.getElementById(divToSwitch).style.display = "none";
}

function resetHidden(checks) {
  if (!checks) {
    document.getElementById("cleric_hidden").style.display = "none";
    document.getElementById("cleric_war_weap").style.display = "none";
  } else {
    insertContent(document.getElementsByTagName('*'), 'cls', 'clr', 'cleric_hidden');   
    insertContent(document.getElementsByTagName('*'), 'cdom', 'war', 'cleric_war_weap');
  }
}