> I would like to construct a select-element with a pre-selected > attribute.
That's part of the magic of Struts. Set the value of the property in the form bean, and that value will be selected when the framework generates the HTML for the select list. Here's one of my select lists: <html-el:select property="purpose"> <html-el:options collection="contactPurposes" property="key" labelProperty="value"/> </html-el:select> I don't do this, but I'd think that the reset method would be an appropriate place to set your defaults. That gets called before the form bean is populated from the request and then displayed. -- Wendy Smoak Applications Systems Analyst, Sr. Arizona State University PA Information Resources Management