title: jquery ajax call not working in IE 7 or 8 but works in Firefox
body: <p>Internet Explorer seems to be ignoring this ajax function call (below) but it works fine in FF?</p>
  
  <p>Help someone please...</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
  function ajax_request(PartNum,InText) {
     var str=PartNum;
       str=str.replace(".","_");
       strHTML = $('#image-placeholder'+str).html();
       if (strHTML == '&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;')
       {
          $('#image-placeholder'+str).html('&lt;p&gt;&lt;mg src="/images/catalog/items/'+PartNum+'.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;');
              $('#text-placeholder'+str).html('&lt;p&gt;'+InText+'&lt;/p&gt;');
       }
          else 
          {
          $('#image-placeholder'+str).html('&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;');
          $('#text-placeholder'+str).html('&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;');
        }
  }
  
  &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>