hi jason
thanks for your response
as you said if i do it like this <option value="" selected="selected">Select A State</option> the initial option is there, but the validation will not work on this
CraigR tell me to label as "select a state" but initial option is blank ( i have see it on test_select.php)
But what i want is I WANT INITIAL OPTION to display 'select a state' and i want it to validate if it selected or not , i want to achieve this , how could i achieve that, help me jason ,thanks