there is another simple way. Just put the value of textarea into a "pre" tag.
for example. print qq{<pre>$value</pre>}; But more important thing is you need to keep in mind always. Incase if you are have charcters other than just alphabets and numbers then have to convert few chars to HTML specific for example. "&" to "&" and if there are multiple consecutive spaces then replace them with " " But you need to very careful with "<" and ">" as they would corrupt the HTML code. Just change them ">" to ">" "<" to "<" Hope You got the answer. regards Rajeev Rumale ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephan Tinnemeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2001 4:28 AM Subject: Re: processing/displaying data within <textarea> > Chad, > > try to set wrap=physical: > > <textarea name="foo" rows=xx cols=yy wrap=physical></textarea> > > Cheers > > Stephan > -- > Dipl.-Chem. Stephan Tinnemeyer > Lindenallee 20 > 24105 Kiel > Germany > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]