Hey to everyone, I'm shooting myself in the foot here with this construct: <select name="begin_day" size="1"> <dtml-in "_.range(1,32,1)"> <option value="&dtml-sequence-item;" <dtml-if expr="begin_day == _.getitem('sequence- item')"> selected </dtml-if> >&dtml-sequence-item;</option> </dtml-in> </select> Inserting with dtml-var any of begin_day or sequence- item yields at some point the same result, logically. I'm trying to make the form field default to a formerly specified value. BUT, the comparison between the two, won't work. Even comparing two _.getitems doesn't work. So it's expected that at no point does the selected property appear in my html source. Please help. I'm shooting myself in the foot here. Thanks in advance, Manuel ---------------------------------------------------------- Universidad Federico Santa Maria - Campus Guayaquil