populating Drop down with items frmo server.

[xs2ahmed]

Your responses are very helpful,
I would like to ask further that If I use XML instead of comma seperated text, could you give me an example as to how would I parse the XML in the java script code to extract my item values.
Thanks.

your example to demonstarte that we can manipulate dropdown using its reference gave me a better idea, Initially i was thinking that generating html is the only way to add items ..