Thanks for the help already. I am still struggling. I didn't have any luck with urlencode(), but I used htmlentities() and the variable did get passed as a section of HTML code. When I sent the mail, however, it displayed as text within the e-mail message and not as a table. I was using these mail headers: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Any other ideas would be appreciated. Thank you -- Monique. This is from the e-mail message that was delivered by the program: ************** Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 From: monique@xxxxxxxxxxx <monique@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: monique@xxxxxxxxxxx <monique@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sender: monique@xxxxxxxxxxx <monique@xxxxxxxxxxx> >From monique@xxxxxxxxxxx To monique@xxxxxxxxxxx >From test Subject Your message From test Message <html> <body bgcolor=\"ffe3bf\" leftmargin=\"0\" topmargin=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\"> <table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"big\"> <tr> <td width=\"3%\" rowspan=\"3\" bgcolor=\"666666\"> <a href=\"../index.php\"><img src=\"../images/logo.png\" name=\"image\" width=\"97\" height=\"115\" border=\"0\"></a></td> <td width=\"97%\" height=\"80\" bgcolor=\"666666\" class=\"logo\"><table width=\"90%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"1\" class=\"xbig\"> <tr> ....etc.... *********** "Richard Lynch" <ceo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1265.66.99.91.45.1103300212.squirrel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > You need to http://php.net/urlencode anything you echo into a HIDDEN INPUT > so that the HTML tags in it don't get used by the browser display > rendering engine. > > > Monique Verrier wrote: > > Hi David -- > > > > When I do that, it creates a problem because it displays a "> at the > > bottom > > of my screen. It is making me crazy! I think it has to do with all the > > quotes in the HTML, but I don't know how to deal with it. I have listed > > the > > code below. Do you have any ideas? Thank you for you help. > > > > Monique. > > ************************** > > $hmessage = ' > > <html> > > <body bgcolor="ffe3bf" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" > > marginheight="0"> > > <table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" > > class="big"> > > <tr> > > <td width="3%" rowspan="3" bgcolor="666666"> > > <a href="../index.php"><img src="../images/logo.png" name="image" > > width="97" height="115" border="0"></a></td> > > <td width="97%" height="80" bgcolor="666666" class="logo"><table > > width="90%" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="1" class="xbig"> > > <tr> > > <td width="100%" align="center"><h4><font color="FFE3BF">Courtesy > > of > > Costill.Com</font></h4></td> > > </tr> > > </table> > > </td> > > </tr> > > <tr> > > <td bgcolor="CCCCCC" class="xbig"> </td> > > </tr> > > </table> > > > > <table width="80%" border="0" align="center" class="bodystyle"> > > <tr> > > <td>'.$message.'<table width="100%" border="0"> > > <tr> > > <td>To: '.$recemail.'</td> > > <td>To: '.$rname.'</td> > > </tr> > > <tr> > > <td>From: '.$sendername.'</td> > > </tr> > > <tr> > > <td>'.$mailmessage.'</td> > > </tr> > > <tr> > > <td> </td> > > </tr> > > <tr> > > <td height="331"> > > <table width="100%" border="0">'; > > //okay a lot of the html is in $hmessage > > > > mysql_data_seek ($rsList, 0); > > > > do { $hmessage .='<tr><td height="65">'. > > $row_rsList['name'].'<br>'. > > $row_rsList['addr'].'<br>'. > > $row_rsList['csz'].'<br><td>'. > > $row_rsList['tel'].'</td><td>Type: '. > > $row_rsList['type'].'</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4">'; > > > > if (!is_null($row_rsList['category'])) {$hmessage > > .=$row_rsList['category'];} > > $hmessage .= "</td></tr>"; > > if (!is_null($row_rsList['comments'])) > > { > > $hmessage .='<tr><td colspan="4">'.$lblcomment; > > $hmessage .= $row_rsList['comments']; > > $hmessage .="</td></tr>"; > > } > > $hmessage .='<tr><td colspan="4"><hr></td></tr>'; > > > > } while ($row_rsList = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsList)); > > > > > > $hmessage .='</table></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table> > > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" > > cellpadding="2" > > bgcolor="CCCCCC"> > > <tr> <td> ©2004 <a href="www.costill.com"></a> </td> > > <td > > align="right">www.healdsburgmenus.com</td></tr></table></body></html>'; > > > > > > *************************** > > > > "David Robley" <robleyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message > > news:20041217043549.36217.qmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:32, Monique Verrier wrote: > >> > >> > Hi! > >> > > >> > I have an html string stored in $message. I "submit" the form to a > >> > subroutine and the value in $message is lost. All the other variables > >> > come > >> > into feedback.php just fine. I would love any help. This is a new > >> > language for me so any suggestions for streamlining my code would also > > be > >> > much > >> > appreciated. Thanks -- Monique. > >> > > >> > Here's my code: > >> > > >> > <?php > >> > $message=getmsg($message,$recemail,$sendername,$mailmessage,$rsList > >> $rname); > >> > mysql_free_result($rsList); > >> > echo $message; // this displays perfectly > >> > ?> > >> > > >> > <form name="maillist" method="post" action="<?php echo > >> "feedback.php"; > >> > ?>"> > >> > <div align="right"> > >> > <input name="email" type="hidden" value="<?php echo $email; ?>"> > >> > <input type="hidden" name="recipient" value="<?php echo > >> $recipient; > >> > ?>"> <input type="hidden" name="redirect" value="<?php echo > > $redirect; > >> > ?>"> <input type="hidden" name="name" value="<?php echo $rname; > >> ?>"> > >> > <input type="hidden" name="env_report" value="on"> > >> > <input type="hidden" name="message" value="<?php $message; ?>"> > >> > >> I think if you were to actually echo $message here, it should display in > > the > >> hidden field as you expect, and hence be passed as part of the form data > > to > >> the target script. > >> > >> > <input type="hidden" name="subject" size="40" value="<?php echo > >> > $subject; ?>" class="form"> > >> > <input type="hidden" name="required" > >> > value="Name,Email,Subject,Updates,Message"> > >> > </div> > >> > <div align="right"> > >> > <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Send!"> > >> > </div> > >> > </form> > >> > >> -- > >> David Robley > >> > >> A cat is the universe's way of showing us perfection. > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > > -- > Like Music? > http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php