what's wrong with this:---- <select name="testing"> <option value=10 <?php echo "checked";?>>Ten</option> <option value=20>Twenty</option> </select> ........SuDeEp...... "Leo G. Divinagracia III" <ldivinag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: i'm thinking of just adding the CHECKED word to the ECHO'ed HTML statement instead of dealing with the VALUE. what's the "proper" vs the "easy" way? thanks... i googled a few pages and it really didnt give a good result. -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers!