On my form I have several drop down menus. They all work and display the corrent values. However, I would like the initial display of the form to show each dropdown as blank. $q_status = "SELECT * FROM status_codes ORDER BY status_description"; $r_status = mssql_query($q_status) or die(mssql_error()); while ($rec_status = mssql_fetch_assoc($r_status)) $status[] = $rec_status; foreach ($status as $s) { if ($s['status_code'] == $_POST['status']) echo "<OPTION value=\"{$s['status_code']}\" SELECTED>{$s['status_description']}</OPTION>\n"; else echo "<OPTION value=\"{$s['status_code']}\">{$s['status_description']}</OPTION>\n"; } Any suggestions on how to make my initial display of the field blank without having to add a blank row to my table?