quoth Keith: > At 01:13 PM Friday 1/3/2003, you wrote: > >I'm having a problem with a form filled textarea and special characters. > >When the form is submitted to be parsed by a PHP script, all the special > >character entities are presented to the script as translated text. > > try placing your textarea inside of pre tags to retain preformatting > > <pre> > <textarea id="b88" name="body[88]" cols="72" rows="12"> > <p>£ <= crazy</p> > </textarea> > </pre> That's not right... How about encoding those character entities? <textarea> <p>£ <= crazy</p> </textarea> WRT validity, <textarea> my *not* contain any other elements: <http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#edef-TEXTAREA> -- shawn allen mailto://shawn@alterior.net phone://415.577.3961 http://alterior.net aim://shawnpallen