'Changing Select Element Content On Fly' Tutorial

My application uses multiple lists in dynamic tables the contents of which change to reflext a user's context. I tried applying your tutorial code for assigning arrays to option values and text using the suggested pipe character "|" delimiter if one was used, but strangely in FireFox .search() to test for the presence of the pipe character returned 0 whether it was there or not! Using another character such as "#" worked fine. Also using DOM methods the text component had to be added by appending a TextNode otherwise the list simply displayed a list of 'undefined' items.My resulting function just unwraps an array of list items into an option group which is then appended to the select element at the calling end:[code]