hi, its both.

the formatting is wrong as well as the text boxes and buttons are not showing up. i switched to layout view and i am still getting the same error.
my internet explorer is 6.0.2800

thanks, Kim

You switched to layout view? Do you mean you changed the form to flow layout?

I don't know what to tell you. This sounds very strange. I'd say try creating a whole new web form to see if you can duplicate the problem. If it happens again, you have something going on with your enviroment.

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

Well thank you for your help. I will try re-designing the site.

I have the file save on my local machine, but the IIS server is on a different location, that just looks at my drive, do you think this has anything to do with that?

thanks again

It very well could be. I don't know what kind of security problems you could have with that. Before you try to debug code, issolate every other possibility, like this. I can't imagine not having troubles trying to get an IIS server on machine try to read and execute code that is living on another machine. That would seem like a permissions nightmare.

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

One more thing to check: Does your IIS Server process the page as an ASPX page? That is, what do you see when you look at the *source* of your final page in the browser?

Do you still see the <asp:*> tags? If so, the page is not processed by ASP.NET correctly. If that's the case, you may need to (re)install the .NET framework in your IIS server or reregister ASP.NET in IIS.

Cheers,

Imar


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Imar Spaanjaars
Everyone is unique, except for me.

I actually got my text boxes and command buttons to show! turns out for some reason the web controls would not view those boxes and buttons, but i replaced them with html control boxes and labels, and all is well.

Except for when i press the submit button, it redirects me to the original page, but it is blank never sending the email, stating:

HTTP 405 - Resource not allowed
Internet Information Services

the debugger states that :
The thread 'Thread A54' (0xa54) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The program '[2192] iexplore.exe: Script program' has exited with code 0 (0x0).

I will try to check the IIS allowing ASP.NET controls.

Thanks for the help.