> Are you sure its not preserved? When you output text in a browser, by default its output as html, not plain text. Html ignores extraneous whitespace, and doesn't use a monospaced font, so formatting text into columns in a textarea won't work either. Look at the html source code to see what is actually being output. Thanks Ashley Source is showing indentation and new paragaraphs just as I inserted the text. How can I get HTML output to show same format? Chris -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php