I think I might have this figured out. in my combobox, I had the following: <select name="cmbProgramKey" id="cmbProgramKey" onChange="cmbProgramKey_OnChange(this.value)"> <option value=""> ( None Selected ) </option> [$ while( $rProgramArray ) $] <option value="[+ $$rProgramArray[0] +]">[+ $$rProgramArray[1] +]</option> [- $rProgramArray = $sthProgram->fetchrow_arrayref(); -] [$ endwhile $] </select> Now when I remove the first option value: <option value=""> ( None Selected ) </option> and end up with <select name="cmbProgramKey" id="cmbProgramKey" onChange="cmbProgramKey_OnChange(this.value)"> [$ while( $rProgramArray ) $] <option value="[+ $$rProgramArray[0] +]">[+ $$rProgramArray[1] +]</option> [- $rProgramArray = $sthProgram->fetchrow_arrayref(); -] [$ endwhile $] </select> things seem to work. Now the question is why? -----Original Message----- From: Boyd, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:21 AM To: 'Jeremy Howard'; Boyd, David; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Looking for answers using mod_perl and windows nt. lets see if I can clearify my statement. first I am new to mod_perl. Now, my form is using post. I am using some debug messages that will output, in html format, the contents of $fdat. So, when I select next page, after making a selection from the combo box, i expected to see something like the following: fdat{cmbClientKey} = <something> I do not get this unless I have the items I posted in the previous message. ... -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:18 AM To: Boyd, David; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Looking for answers using mod_perl and windows nt. Boyd, David wrote: > I am using Windows NT, running apache with mod_perl. > > The problem that I am having is that I am dynamiclly filling in the options > of a select box from a > database. now when a user selects a value, I expect that value to be on the > URL, but it is not. I > am currently saving the selected value to a hidden field, which does show up > on the URL. Anyone > know the reason why. > I'm not sure I understand your question, David. If you're saying that you would expect the result of pressing a submit button in a form to be that request is sent like 'http://some.host/file.pl?combo=value', then you need to ensure that the form in your HTML is set to GET rather than POST style encoding. But that's not really a mod_perl issue...