Quoting Mark Rees <mrees@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > Consider whether you will always display the information in a web browser. > If there is any possibility that another program may be used for display, > you don't want the HTML tags in the database. In this particular situation I'm dealing with I only have web browsers to worry about. However, for the sake of argument: couldn't I still allow those styling tags and do some post-processing in the code? Such as stripping the tags, or converting them to something else. Things like bold and italic are almost universally meaningful. -- Romanian Web Developers - http://ROWD.ORG -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php