Thanks Michael,

That works very well. I didn't try that because in some docs it said that that property was readonly. This really helped my code length. Every other answer said you would have to loop through and removechild(0). :)

>>In DHTML is there a command to remove all options from a select object? Or should one use removechild method with:
>>document.all.optlist1.removechild() in a loop?
>>
>>TIA
>
>Remove all options from a select by setting the options.length property to zero. If optlist1 is the select object reference:
>optlist1.options.length = 0