> <p><textarea rows="5" name="tastes" cols="28"></textarea></p> eps, sorry.. Micah Gersten is right. You will need the echo among them. <textarea rows="5" name="tastes" cols="28"> <? echo $tastes;?> </textarea> -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php