On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 07:18 -0700, Haig Davis wrote: > echo " <li>".$row['melID']."<input type="checkbox" > name="\".$row['melID].\""/input> "; You're escaping in the wrong places. The \ escapes the character following it, so what you are doing here, in line 2, is breaking out of the string with a regular " and then printing a " (escaped \") Also, I think you need to brush up on your HTML a bit, as <input type="checkbox" name="name"/input> is not valid HTML. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php