well thats just odd. that was the method I was going to do originally. but hadnt tested putting the recordset in the middle of the loop, funnily enough thats exactly what i was going to do. however I had to copy and paste the repeat region since dreamweaver wouldnt allow me to create another repeat region inside another, stating it didnt like doing nested regions in a behaviour. I tried using the webassist repeat selection but it came out with a different error. anyway hand coding allowed to work so its all playing nicely - What I am learning as that I do need to learn more hand coding skills, as relying on automatically generated code isnt enough for some websites. but its all good as thats exactly what I want to do :)
thnaks for the help :)
chris
