function loadPage(pageURL) {

    if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari, ...

        httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();

        httpRequest.overrideMimeType("text/html");

    } else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE

        httpRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");

    }

    httpRequest.open("GET", pageURL, false);
    httpRequest.send(null);

    if(httpRequest.status==200 && httpRequest.responseText){
      str =  httpRequest.responseText;
    }

    httpRequest.abort();
    return str;
      
}