paul, ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< > From: paul at one-pla.net > > I've just run into a curious thing: apparently, Netscape > 6.1 will select radiobuttons in forms when it is served > a page with a DTD, but will correctly render the form > (i.e. not select any radiobuttons) in a page without a > DTD. I've put together some short examples here: ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< fwiw, ie3 will do the same. interestingly enough, it's actually what's *supposed* to happen. http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#radio so, it seems you should be specifying which one is selected by default or let the user agent handle it and expect to get inconsistent behavior. .jeff http://evolt.org/ jeff at members.evolt.org http://members.evolt.org/jeff/