var http_request_contact = false;
   function makePOSTRequestcontact(url, parameters) {
      document.getElementById('refreshDiv').innerHTML = 'Loading...';
      http_request_contact = false;
      if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,...
         http_request_contact = new XMLHttpRequest();
         if (http_request_contact.overrideMimeType) {
                 // set type accordingly to anticipated content type
            //http_request_login.overrideMimeType('text/xml');
            http_request_contact.overrideMimeType('text/html');
         }
      } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
         try {
            http_request_contact = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
         } catch (e) {
            try {
               http_request_contact = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) {}
         }
      }
      if (!http_request_contact) {
         alert('Cannot create XMLHTTP instance');
         return false;
      }

      http_request_contact.onreadystatechange = alertContentscontact;
      http_request_contact.open('POST', url, true);
      http_request_contact.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
      http_request_contact.setRequestHeader("Content-length", parameters.length);
      http_request_contact.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close");
      http_request_contact.send(parameters);
   }

   function alertContentscontact() {
      if (http_request_contact.readyState == 4) {
         if (http_request_contact.status == 200) {
            //alert(http_request_login.responseText);
            result = http_request_contact.responseText;
            //alert("|"+result+"|");
            if (result != "") {
            	document.getElementById('refreshDiv').innerHTML = result;
            } else {
            	document.getElementById("_normalContact_").style.display = "none";
            	document.getElementById("_thanksContact_").style.display = "block";
            }
         } else {
            alert('There was a problem with the request.');
         }
      }
   }

  function load_contact(obj) {
    var poststr = "first_name="+encodeURI(document.getElementById("__first_name").value)+"&last_name="+encodeURI(document.getElementById("__last_name").value)+"&txt_email=" + encodeURI(document.getElementById("txt_email").value) + "&txt_message=" + encodeURI(document.getElementById("txt_message").value) + "&txt_subject=" + encodeURI(document.getElementById("txt_subject").value) + "&submit=submit";
    makePOSTRequestcontact('redirect.php?action=footer&type=contactus', poststr);
  }