>What Isaac and I were thinking is that it could simply be a part of >the article HTML itself. Don't need to modify the db for this. Certainly true. Setting length by example should be adequate enough not to need a separate length-constrained entry field. >Madhu >(who apparently resembles Marlene's dad :) Well, sure, you did. Don't recall what I sent you to before, but here's an example... Madhu: http://www.expressa.com/images/blog/madmanchimp-cropped.jpg My dad: http://digitizethis.com/memorial/dad/images/family_71.jpg