NIST An HTMLOptionsCollection is a list of nodes representing HTML option element. An individual node may be accessed by either ordinal index, the node's name or id attributes. (Test node name). The namedItem method retrieves a Node using a name. It first searches for a node with a matching id attribute. If it doesn't find one, it then searches for a Node with a matching name attribute, but only those elements that are allowed a name attribute. Upon failure(e.q., no node with this name exists), returns null. Retrieve the first FORM element. Create a HTMLCollection of the elements. Search for an element that has select9 as the value for the name attribute. Null should be returned since there is not any name or id attribute with select9 as a value. Rick Rivello 2002-08-01