BTW, this was written before I found PM, and I knew nothing about CGI.pm. Not that it matters, but I intercept the submit via "onclick=" and not "onsubmit=" as I originally posted. I don't know if this is enough code or not: 
   print << "--eot1--";
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
<head>
   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-885
+9-1">
   <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Mozilla/4.75 [en] (Win98; U) [Netsc
+ape]">
   <title>USA Fourteenth Faculty Survey, 2001</title>
</head>

   . . .

<form name="Survey" method="POST" action="$SubmitURL">

   . . .

   <table border=0 width="100%">
      <tr><td><TEXTAREA NAME="xiv" ROWS="6" COLS="55" wrap="soft"></TE
+XTAREA></td></tr>
      <tr><td><input type="button" name="SubmitSurvey" value="Submit S
+urvey" onclick="javascript:return SurveySubmit(document.forms[0])"></
+td></tr>
   </table>

   . . .

</form>
--eot1--

   . . .

function SurveySubmit (form) {
   var CGI_URL = "http://jaguar1.usouthal.edu/cgi-bin/surveys/facsenat
+e/"
   form.xiv.value = escape(form.xiv.value)
   form.action = CGI_URL + "writesurvey.pl"
   form.submit()
   return true
}

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Update: Added javascript sub SurveySubmit(). Also, in one application there was only one person using the form for input so I told them to be sure and use &acute; instead of the single quote and there's no problem (still an unacceptable solution though).

--Jim

In reply to Re: Re: (OT) TEXTAREA and the Single Quote by jlongino
in thread (OT) TEXTAREA and the Single Quote by jlongino

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