Hi Albert, > I want to create a drop-down list, where you select a country > from a list. I want to populate this list, manually ISO country codes: http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_3166.html Should take all of 2 mins to turn that list into a <select>. > and i want the user to be able to select a name from the list, > and it's value to be send to the database, so that when i look > at the request this user has put in, i should be able to see the > correct select he/she had selected.... Your form should submit to a script which handles this. Have a read of this (it assumes you're using MySQL): http://www.zend.com/php/beginners/php101-8.php#Heading7 Cheers Jon