On Mar 6, 2005, at 9:15 PM, Craig White wrote: >> On my setup, it seems to work, but without displaying any labels. Your >> values are there, but you're not giving a human-readable name for each >> option in the select list. As a result, it shows up as a blank list. >> >> Change your '; >> >> And it should display a list the way you're wanting. The value >> attribute is only used for enumerated lists where you are mapping >> human-readable values to database values (i.e., phone call result >> codes). If you don't specify a value attribute, the browser will use >> the value between the tags as the actual value. > ---- > OK - got it...thanks > > spent a lot of time working on this issue - finally reduced it down to > something really simple to ask the question which solved most of my > problems but you finished it. > > I guess that is a technique that I need to get through my thick > head...keep it simple. Well, this issue had little to do with overcomplexity -- more like you just didn't understand what values to give to the