Is there anyway of having the code below to return int value? I have variables that match the datatype in the database, and I really want to keep it instead of having String methods in the form class and do conversion everytime I need to read and modified using the get method. <html:select property="IUserType"> <html:option value="1" >Type1</html:option> <html:option value="2" >Type2</html:option> <html:option value="0" >Type3</html:option> </html:select> Andy