hey nav33n.

you probably did not understand my requirement(or maybe i am not understanding your solution)....

What is need is this:

there is a form, say P1, where the user specifies whether he is a teacher/student.
Irrespective of his answer, he is re-directed to P2 on submission of P1.

Now, P2 is also a form. If the person == teacher, then P2 (also a form) contains some text field, and a drop-down-list, DDL1.

On the other hand, if person == student, then P2 contains the SAME text fields(as in the case of teacher), but a different drop-down-list, say DDL2.

I can do this using 2 different forms, one for the teacher and 1 for the student, but this is inefficient in case i hav more options as there is large amt of data replication.

pls clarify....

thx a lot...

Do a conditional on which drop down to present.

Umm.. probably, You didn't understand my solution. In my example, I submitted to the same page and echoed the selected option, just to give you an idea how it can be done. Anyway, I hope buddylee17's example is clear enough.