Seems like that would just be mySelect.options[mySelect.selectedIndex].value ...right? You can change value to text if you want the visible text of the option... Cheers, Peter From: "Roderick A. Anderson" raanders at acm.org I just ran into this interesting non-feature of IE. There is no onclick event for an ( it looks like IE 6 and older ). Being new to serious Javascript'in I haven't found any example code to solve it. My searching found some code that hints at the issue here. http://www.lattimore.id.au/2005/07/01/select-option-disabled-and-the-javascript-solution/ What I'm trying to do is change an image next to the 'only' list in the document depending on which is selected.Suggestions of where to look for a QaD answer of how to determine whichwas selected when the onchange event fires for the. TIA, Rod -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evolt.org/pipermail/javascript/attachments/20051230/e72346ea/attachment.htm>