When I put his line outside of the php tags I get the correct size: <textarea name='name' value='$String' rows='10' cols='10'></textarea><p> When I put this line inside the php tags the size comes out about 2 rows by 10 columns regardless of the value of rows and cols. Any ideas on how to format this would be greatly appreciated. The mySQL db column TYPE I am calling is Blob not null. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php