Hi, i am calling search.php page as thickbox and this code is inside the search..php <div style="position:relative;" > <div id="loadimage" style="display:none;text-align:center; position:relative;"><img src="<?php echo WEB_ROOT;?>images/loadingAnimation.gif" align="middle"/></div> <div id="xmlid"></div> </div> when thickbox(search.php) open, i am calling the another page through ajax,during busy time i want to show the busy status by change style display=block on above divid=loadimage(please see the above is div with id=loadimage). i am calling ajax using jquery.here is the code to change status. $("#loadimage").bind("ajaxSend",function(){ $(this).show(); }).bind("ajaxComplete",function(){ $(this).hide(); }); but this hide show is not working in IE8 .it is perfectly working in firefox. how to make it work in IE8; thanks Humayoo [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]