I have a <textarea> thats linked to an Access field of type 'memo'. The text area has a bunch of carriage returns and line feeds in it prior to the user typing anything in. Can anyone explain this?

Is there anything between the <textarea...> and </textarea> tags? thats the only reason I could see. I'm willing to bet that you have some white space in your ASP code that's around the VBScript where you get the database values. This would result in whitespace between the tags that ends up in what should be an empty box.

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

Thanks planoie,
I get lazy while editing HTML knowing that it ignores tabs, spaces, linefeeds ect. However in this case I'm setting a value and I overlooked that fact. You nailed it, my code was:

<textarea name="txtNotes" cols="35" id="txtNotes">

<%
If NOT blnNew Then
     Response.Write(objRS("txtNotes"))
End If
%>

</textarea>

I changed to:


<textarea name="txtNotes" cols="35" id="txtNotes"><%
If NOT blnNew Then
     Response.Write(objRS("txtNotes"))
End If%></textarea>


and now life is good. Thanks much.

The other thing you can do for the sake of readability is this...

If NOT blnNew Then
     sTxtNotes = objRS("txtNotes")
End If

<textarea name="txtNotes" cols="35" id="txtNotes"><%=sTxtNotes%></textarea>

It's also better to keep your business/database login outside of the display code. Just makes it a bit easier to read.

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.