craig, ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< > From: Craig > > Hi, does anyone know why the ASP code below doesn't > pass the string '&' thru when submitting the form. > Even though '&' is the value for the text field, > only '&' gets submitted ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< this is not a server-side problem, but a problem with how browsers treat encoded characters in form elements. take a look at this to see the problem and the solution: <http://members.evolt.org/jeff/code/character_converting_textarea.cfm> .jeff http://evolt.org/ jeff at members.evolt.org http://members.evolt.org/jeff/