fieldset to wrap 'select' control
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <form style="width: 200px;"> <fieldset><legend>Cheeses of the world</legend> <p> <select name="cheesemenu"> <option>Cheddar</option> <option>Stilton</option> <option>Brie</option> </select></p> <p> <input type="submit" value="submit" /></p> </fieldset> </form> </body> </html>