Okay so i have this a web page with a lot of citations... but the page is continuesly edited, so i'd like as i add a new citation, all the numbers reevaluate themselves..
I thought i'd use a function like this
function myfunc()
{
var x;
document.write(x);
x++;
}

then for each citation put
<a href="#">^myfunc() </a>

but it doesn't work... I've decided I need one of three things

1) Way to make html read javascript functions
2) Way to fix function (because it doesn't really seem to work)
3) Alternative way to accomplish this
THANKS IN ADVANCE!

If I have understood your question, and the likelyhood is that I haven't at all

1) IMPOSSIBLE!

2) Unless the citations are produced in a way they can be identified (unique tag, class, or some other attribute on a tag) it won't happen.

3) USE SERVER SIDE CODE when it writes out the page, why on earth you would try to do something client side that would be obviously so simple to apply when creating the page on the server escapes me.

Thanks, and its because I'm not so skilled at PHP.
Basically this is what I want..
Let's say i have an article (1). And in this article I have many facts (2). So for each fact, i give i want to cite it and give a reference for it (3). Therefore at the end of each fact I add a little citation. The citation number links to the bottom of the page, where there is a quick source (4). This is similar to Wikipedia (5).

But now, lets say I want to add a sentance in-between 2 and 3, and make a citation for tht sentance. I would label it '3' but then I would need to go back, and relabel the old 3 as '4', the old 4 as '5' etc...
make sense?
so What i want to do is make it so that instead of just putting numbers, i have some sort of variable that adds one as it goes down the page. I thought to use like a javascript which first put the number then adds one...?

<?php
$number++;
echo $number;
?>

would that work?

It might.

Without knowing the backend code for the site it's impossible to say.

Okay it worked perfectly... Thanks.
Now, for each of those citations I made them link to the bottom of the page with an ordered list... however i'd like to somehow make it so that
<a href="#1"> for the first one and <a href="#2"> for the second one etc... but it wont let me put php in the href or it just reads the php as if its PART of the url... If i could somehow just make it read the php as a number then put that after the # sign... at the bottom of the page I could have a bunch of anchors where there name = the same php equation.... so (1)'s href="#1" and then at the bottom of the page there is an anchor named "1" which it links to.... and so on and so forth down the page

give each of the elements IDs (server side) and make your citations named anchors to the IDs.

I thought of that but then I would not be able to add one in the middle without rescripting all the ones after... i figured it out, but thanks so much!

Liophant.com/stein.php

is the site, if you are interested in seeing how i managed to do it
Thanks again SO much!