Thank you for the sample code. I thought you might suggest that solution with the example I gave. What I am actually try to do is show status text when the page is rendering (pre form onload) or on a postback from a dropdown or checkbox that tells the user the page is rendering, loading, refreshing, etc. 

Your solution will work for me but I have to put in a lot of special handling in just for cute editor, I could not find a way to get it to come up correctly in a hidden div tag (My ideal solution to keep code at the minimal).  So, instead of one div tag, I have to spilt it up into multiple div tags before and after all my cute editors, and put special javascript on every postback javascript click to hide cuteeditor. If I come up with a more elegant solution I will post the results here.

 
Thanks for the help,

Jason