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Note Submitter: fuchs at michaelfuchs dot org ---- Here's a new one, which might cause problems for people: To make my multiple select box contents accessible to both PHP and JavaScript (using getElementById()), I was using both name and id attributes - and naming them the same, for consistency: <select multiple="multiple" id="bob[]" name="bob[]"> However, I've discovered that - for reasons unknown - using the brackets in the id causes only a single value (rather than multiple values) to get returned to the $_POST['bob'] array. What you want is: <select multiple="multiple" id="bob" name="bob[]"> Hope this saves some time/frustration.