id & name when identifying html elements

Hi I've got a question about about naming html components (text fields, select boxes etc) when submitting a form to a php page. First I tried identifying an element using the "id" attribute and found that it was not being posted to the php page. When I use the "name" attribute it did get posted to the page? I had a look on the w3c html spec and "name" takes precedence over "id" if used together but you should be able to use them individually with no problems. When you submit a form with this select box, "country" will is not submitted to the php page. <select *id*="country" onChange="alterForm();"> <option value="one">one</option> <option value="two">two</option> </select> When you use this code, it works fine. "country" gets submitted to the php page? <select *name*="country" onChange="alterForm();"> <option value="one">one</option> <option value="two">two</option> </select> Any thoughts? best wishes roland tarver