tulanch

got it to work

all attempts to remove the funcky tags/items the editor adds in failed

created a shortcode tage plugin and put all the above code in via that approach

this required I make the paths of the includes absolute paths instead of relative paths as listed above

it turned out to be a logo image that was placed on the page based on browser type, had to adjust start position due to browser relative/absolute issues… for some reason on the local machine, this browser type check was not working correctly. On the live site, this browser check seemed to work, but the addition of the image mucked up the menu in IE. When I removed this code all worked fine in all browsers… I found this by grabbing the source of the page and then began to remove items one by one until the page worked on IE…

Thanks for your reply…

to answer your question, it displayed only an empty field/box.

But following your instructions I did get the following to work..

< br > < br > Experience < br >
<select name=’f3′ id=’f3′ >
<option value=”Semi-Pro”>Semi-Pro</option>
<option value=”D1″>D1</option>
<option value=”D2″>D2</option>
<option value=”D3″>D3</option>
<option value=”HighSchool”>HighSchool</option>
<option value=”Recreation”>Recreation</option>
</select>

The title/name of the select field would not display no matter what I tried. The selector area was somewhat condensed with respect to the text field that does work. The respective CSS for Comments in the default WordPress 2011 theme must be doing something adverse there… so I added some < br > tags along with my own text that provides a title. I also needed to ensure that the id was the same as in the CEF settings interface so when I went to retrieve in functions.php it was able to obtain the selected value. I bet if I dig into the CSS I will eventually figure out whats going on, but what I have now works just fine.

Thanks for your help