[snip] Absolutely sure. I've gone ahead and posted a page where you can view the full php code: http://www.sparklesparties.com/tom.html [/snip] How about the code from the include file? If you do this, what happens? <? $pagetag = "home"; ?> <? echo $pagetag; ?> <? include("includes/navigation.php");?> <? echo $pagetag; ?>