I have a form that uses a cfselect which is used in a cold fusion report. Works like a charm. However in the heading of the report I want to let the user know what the selecton criteria was. I can pass the option part of the cfselect but that is just a key to the file and not meaningful to the end user. What I want to do is pass the text part of the select to the report but I can't figure out the syntax to do this. <cfselect name="Major_Key" id="Major_Key" bind="cfc:MajorMinor.getMajor()" value="Major_Key" display="Description" bindonload="true" /> ... <cfscript> selection_string = "Major_Key = '#form.Major_Key.Description#' "; However, this doesn't work and I can't figure out what the right combo is. Do I have to reread the file using the key to get the description again?