> Have you try emptying your cache and restarting IE. Sometimes IE cache gets > corrupted and It stop responding in a predictable manner.
That's a good idea. Also, try to ween down the page as much as possible to pin-point the problem; strip out everything you can. "value" is the dom property that holds the textarea text, the form plugin is proof of that. Here's a form that uses the form plugin: http://malsup.com/jquery/form Do you get the correct textarea values using this form? Mike _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/