var http_request = false;
   function makePOSTRequestMsg(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 = alertContentsM;
      http_request.open('POST', url, true);
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Content-length", parameters.length);
      http_request.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
      http_request.send(parameters);
   }
var msgid;
   function alertContentsM() {
      if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
         if (http_request.status == 200) {
            //alert(http_request.responseText);
            result = http_request.responseText;
           //document.getElementById('myspan').innerHTML = result;
            document.getElementById(msgid).innerHTML = "<font style=font-size:20px;color:#FFFFFF;><b>" + result + "</b></font>";
            document.getElementById(msgid).innerHTML = "<font style=font-size:20px;color:#FFFFFF;><b>" + result + "</b></font>";
           document.getElementById(msgid + "X").innerHTML = "<font style=font-size:20px;color:#777777;><b>+</b></font>";
           document.getElementById(msgid + "Y").innerHTML = "<font style=font-size:20px;color:#777777;><b>-</b></font>";
         } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         }
      }
   }
   function rateM(obj,obj2) {
 //     var poststr = obj + "&ID=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("ID").value ) + "&items=" + encodeURI( document.getElementById("items").value );
     var poststr = "ID=" + obj + "&items=" + obj2;
     msgid=obj2;

      makePOSTRequestMsg('/msgrate/ratemsg.asp', poststr);
   }