>From the PHP manual: "Starting with PHP 4.0.5, nl2br() is now XHTML compliant." What about people who are still using HTML4.01 ??? is there some way to make this function return just <br>, as this is now stopping a lot of my pages validating. :( Cheers, Donald -- http://www.AccessibleComputers.co.uk Hardware, Software & Custom built PC Systems _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com