You didn’t get the Value attribute because you didn’t supply an explicit value for the item in the ListItem Collection Editor. If you omit the Value, the text between the opening and closing tags of the ListItem is used implicitly as the value, which is fine in many cases. However, it’s also quite common to have a different Value and Text property in the list. For example, when you have a list with countries, you could use the full name of the country as the Text (like The Netherlands) and use the official country code (nl) as the Value for the drop-down list. You see the list controls at work in other chapters in this book.