Babu, > but it doe not work can you pls tell me. for example you can define 'red' as a css class either in the head of your document output (within <style> tags) or as an external linked .css document. 'red' is defined so: .red { color:#FF0000; } Then your option html is like: echo "<option class=\"red\">$item</option>"; The advantage of using classes is of course that you can make a change globally rather than having to rewrite N instances of inline code. Cheers CHris p.s. can you please send plaintext mails to the list, not html ;) -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php