Hi, I have a drop-down list which is dynamically populated from a database lookup table using the <dtml-in> structure to iterate through the list of rows and add an <OPTION> to the drop-down for each row in the table. like so: <select name="Purpose"> <dtml-in sqlLookupResearchPurpose> <option value="<dtml-var "RESEARCH_PURPOSE">"> <dtml- var "RESEARCH_PURPOSE"> </option> </dtml-in> </select> I want to be able to add the SELECTED HTML attribute to a specific option which is determined only at runtime. Basically if the current value of research_purpose field equals the value of the purpose variable I want to insert the select attribute at this point. <dtml-if expr="<dtml-var "RESEARCH_PURPOSE"> == <dtml-var "PURPOSE">"> SELECTED </dtml-if> However, I get a syntax error. How do you usually test the condition when 2 variable are equal? Putting the code together: <select name="Purpose"> <dtml-in sqlLookupResearchPurpose> <option value="<dtml-var "RESEARCH_PURPOSE">" <dtml−if expr="<dtml-var "RESEARCH_PURPOSE"> == <dtml-var "PURPOSE">"> SELECTED </dtml−if> > <dtml-var "RESEARCH_PURPOSE"> </option> </dtml-in> </select> If anyone could show me how this is normally done or point me in the direction of any tutorials/how-tos etc. it would be appreciated.. Many thanks, Richard _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com