>I've always used — for em dashes and it seems to work for me. Of course, immediately after sending that, I realized the error of my ways. — is invalid, but for whatever reason, I never switched to —, probably for the reasons stated in your original email (it not showing up correctly in some browsers). I don't know what the best solution is. FWIW, — works for me in a bunch of different versions of IE on Windows and on Mozilla on both IE and Linux. http://www.evolt.org/article/ala/17/21234/ http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/www/emdash.htm Roger