I have a recordset that is being displayed in a table and I wanted the displayed entries to be numbered as they are shown..
ex.
count firstname lastname
  1 henry jones
  2 mike jones

I thought the count portion would be easy but it seems to be an issue.. how can I generate a count and have it displayed in the returned HTML code?

Please advise.

You need to increment a variable!

Assuming your code looks somewhat like this...
...you'll want to increment a counter within the loop like this:
HTH

~Jonax

The suggested method:

Do While Not rs.eof
   iRowCounter = iRowCounter + 1
   response.write "<tr><td>" & iRowCounter & "</td><td>" & rs("firstname") & "</td><td>" & rs("lastname") & "</td></tr>"
rs.MoveNext
Loop

Should be changed to:

dim iRowCounter (declaire your variable)
iRowCounter = 0 (set your variable to 0 and an integer (best practice))
Do While Not rs.eof
   iRowCounter = iRowCounter + 1
   response.write "<tr><td>" & iRowCounter & "</td><td>'" & rs("firstname") & "'</td><td>'" & rs("lastname") & "'</td></tr>"
rs.MoveNext
Loop

Note the difference between:
<td>" & rs("firstname") & "</td>
and
<td>'" & rs("firstname") & "'</td>

If any first or last name has a space it will not show what's after the space, EG:
if first name = Mary Anne
without the single quotes it will only dispaly Mary



Wind is your friend
Matt

Thanks Mat41 and Jonax.. Your comment really did the trick..

D.