--- "Ford, Mike" <M.Ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > echo nl2br(htmlspecialchars($text)) is my usual > mantra for this. > nl2br will give you back the correct formatting, but will leave <br/>'s in the output. I just went through this issue the other day, what I found worked for me was: htmlspecialchars('string'),ENT_NOQUOTES); Note- check the available parameters for htmlspecialchars. I used ENT_NOQUOTES because I wanted to preserve the single and double quotes in my text. Hope this helps. Stuart -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php