in PHP you can show one thing and have a different value hidden <select id="animal" name="animal"> <option value="0">--Select Animal--</option> <option value="1">Cat</option> <option value="2">Dog</option> <option value="3">Cow</option> </select> this is great when working across databases because you can use unique identifiers. so if I say dog I can now use the value of 2 to look for directly related material in sqllite. does this exist in autoit?