> > How do you specify the value of the option? > Or if you are working with values from a database you could do something simple like: <SELECT name="name"> <?php $q_name = "SELECT * from name_table"; $r_name = ifx_query($q_name, $connect_id) or die("couldn't execute the query"); while ($rec_name = ifx_fetch_row($r_name)) $name[] = $rec_name; echo "<OPTION value=\"\">--SELECT--</OPTION>\n"; foreach ($name as $n) { if ($n['full_name'] == $_POST['name']) echo "<OPTION value=\"{$n['full_name']}\" SELECTED>{$n['full_name']}</OPTION>\n"; else echo "<OPTION value=\"{$n['full_name']}\">{$n['full_name']}</OPTION>\n"; } ?> </SELECT>