Since you're using HTML tables, you should be aware that Netscape 4.x will not display anything within a table in the browser window if you don't close all the table tags. I don't see enough code here to see where you start or where you end your HTML tables. But that would by my first stab at what's going wrong. Also, if the user puts in HTML tags, this could break various things. You are doing sanity checks on your input, I hope! Since browsers are supposed to ignore more than one whitespace character in a row (including \r, \n, \t, and spaces), I doubt it's the \r's coming in from your textarea.

NOT a P.S. see use CGI or die; for why you should use CGI.

Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

In reply to Re: textareas, form scripts, line breaks etc by arturo
in thread textareas, form scripts, line breaks etc by create 3 arrays. first array last names, second name first name and third array

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