You want to move the textarea contents text to between the <textarea> and </textarea> tags: <TEXTAREA style="FONT-SIZE: 13px;" name="comments" rows="7" cols="21" value="comments" type="text" maxLength="32" size="14" onchange="Form1.send.focus()"/> <?php echo $_POST['comments']; ?> </TEXTAREA> -jmb Chris wrote: >At the moment, the visitor inputs a load of text >into the comments box, but if they click send and >there's errors in other fields on the page, the >comments box goes blank and they have to start all >over again ;-( Trying to get it so that the >comments box stays complete). > >Do I have to refer to the field or field name >elsewhere in the code please? Getting a bit stuck >on this ;-( > >Any help appreciated. > >Chris > ><TEXTAREA style="FONT-SIZE: 13px;" name="comments" >rows="7" cols="21" value="comments" type="text" >value="<?php echo $_POST['comments']; ?>" >maxLength="32" size="14" >onchange="Form1.send.focus()"/> ></TEXTAREA> > > > > >PHP Data object relational mapping generator >http://www.metastorage.net/ >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > PHP Data object relational mapping generator http://www.metastorage.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-objects/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/