Hey Gep

Ok, it was my bad.

I had been laying out the form before writing the ajax and I left <select id="ddl_coSalutation".... in the mark up. It was right above the target container for the returning html.

Once I removed that from the mark up, the function worked perfectly and the id was exactly as written.

BTW, I was a bit scared of MVC at first, but it's starting to get easy. Good luck on your sharepoint

Cheers