html code <tr> <td bgcolor="#F0F7F1" class="vardana12black">Subject</td> <td colspan="2" class="subject" ><div id="subjecttd"><select name="subjectid" is="subjectid" onchange="$('#chapterdiv').load('chapterload.php?id='+this.value);"> <?php $query= sprintf("SELECT * FROM subject where status=1 order by srno"); echo $query; mysql_select_db($database_DBconnect, $DBconnect); $Result = mysql_query($query, $DBconnect) or die(mysql_error()); $rows = mysql_fetch_assoc($Result); $totalrows=mysql_num_rows($Result); $i=0; ?> <?php do { $i++; echo $i."<br>"; ?> <option value="<?php echo $rows['id'];?>"><?php echo $rows['name'];?></option> <?php } while ( $rows = mysql_fetch_assoc($Result)); ?> </select> </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#F0F7F1" class="vardana12black" >Chapter</td> <td colspan="2" class="bggrey" ><div align="left" id="chapterdiv"> </div></td> </tr> php code <?php $id=$_REQUEST['id']; $query= sprintf("SELECT * FROM subject WHERE id=%d",$id); mysql_select_db($database_DBconnect, $DBconnect); $Result = mysql_query($query, $DBconnect) or die(mysql_error()); $rows = mysql_fetch_assoc($Result); $totalrows=mysql_num_rows($Result); $i=0; //echo "Select No. of chapters: ".$rows['name']; ?> <select name="chapterid" id="chapterid"> <option value="">Select Chapter for <?php echo $rows['name'];?> </option> <?php do { $i++; ?> <option value="<?php echo $i;?>"><?php echo $i;?></option> <?php } while ( $i < $rows['chapters']);?> </select> when i select subject (for 1st time) This code generates a dropdown combo box correctly. No issues My Problem However when I select another value from dropdown box nothing happens the change event is not triggered hence the dropdown box is not populated again as per number of chapters My Database Table TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `subject` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `status` tinyint(1) DEFAULT '0', `srno` tinyint(1) DEFAULT '0', `briefname` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, `name` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, `detail` text, `chapters` int(13) DEFAULT NULL, `image1` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL, `upddt` timestamp NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=21 ; -- -- Dumping data for table `subject` -- INSERT INTO `subject` (`id`, `status`, `srno`, `briefname`, `name`, `detail`, `chapters`, `image1`, `upddt`) VALUES (14, 1, 10, 'ALG', 'Algebra', NULL, 10, NULL, '2012-03-06 15:11:11'), (20, 1, 43, 'ENG', 'English', NULL, 11, NULL, '2012-09-28 08:04:37'), (19, 1, 42, 'ECO', 'Economics', NULL, 5, NULL, '2012-09-28 06:19:18'), (18, 1, 41, 'HIS', 'History', NULL, 7, NULL, '2012-09-28 04:14:58'); With this let me repeat what happens when program starts and I Select Subject English the another dropdown box appears with following values ( there are 1 to 11 values because there are 11 chapters in English) values in 2nd dropdown: Select Chapter for English 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 which is correct however if i select Economics Nothing happens I expect the drop-down box to appear with values 1 to 5 but the drop-down box for chapters are not populated again for values 1 to 5 for Economics