sounds like the double quote in your string is being interpreted by your
browser as the end of the value of your text box.
Try using:
<input type="text" name="Task" value="#HTMLEditFormat(Description)#"
size="70" maxlength="600">
HTH
Bert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nichols, Robert H. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 16 May 2001 14:51
> To: Fusebox
> Subject: RE: Strange characters
>
>
> okay, let me restate -- I have a string of characters*:
>
> -->Assign the patient to one of several hundred
> "diagnosis-related groups,"
> or DRG's, using appropriate computer software. <--
>
> This saves and can be found in the database just fine. Now
> when I try to
> output this text into a text box:
>
>
>
> The string is truncated to:
>
> -->Assign the patient to one of several hundred <--
>
> * - BTW, I used --> to be the beginning of the string and <--
> to be the end.
>
> Robert H. Nichols
> Web Developer
> Center for Engineering & Environmental Technologies
> Information Delivery Systems <http://ids.rti.org>
> Research Triangle Institute
> Voice: 919-541-8009 Fax: 919-541-6936
>
>
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