This is a repost but it was originally posted during the holidays, so I'm hoping it was the distraction of fun&food that caused no replies, not the stupidity of the question! (i'm still hoping..) I saw in zope.org's Documentation/How-to's an essay on how to create a form with a variable number of inputs - the problem being, you get your results but what are their names? But this scheme seemed a bit too complicated for my simple mind. I also read about the ':record' type but its behavior doesn't seem useful in this case where some selections in some rows might be left empty. What I have is a table that has variable number of rows with listboxes of the same choices and text input boxes in each row (the values of the listboxes, etc being generated from a SQL method). The user might change some or none of the choices. So what you get in the REQUEST for each form input name is a list of values instead of a single value. What I wound up doing to get this is in each row having something like <td><select name="lister:list" size="1"> <option value="Unassigned_Investigator"> <dtml-in get_all_inv_names> <option value="<dtml-var lastname"><dtml-var lastname></option> </dtml-in> </select> </td> which just means I coerced the 'lister' selection to be a list(in case there were just one selection - the normal behavior for Zope when several form variables have the same name 'joe' appears to be to turn them into a list named 'joe'. I also have a hidden field of 'ids' which is also a list and which is in each row too. So far when I get these list of 'ids' and 'lister' back, using Linux Netscape 4 and Windows IE 4, they match up - in other words, the first 'ids' corresponds to the first 'lister', etc. So I can figure out which selection goes with which record/row. So it seems that inputs with the same name are sent back to Zope 'in order' at least with the browsers I use. Is this a browser-dependent thing or does Zope have some magic I don't know about that's doing this? Is my ignorance showing? (don't answer that!) I have a bunch more forms I'm considering doing this way but I'm worried I'm just getting lucky and this might not work in all situations/browsers. Anyone know?