To put line breaks in a textarea, you don't have to use 
. Just put the line breaks into the template normally.
For example, <textarea> stuff </textarea> will put about 4 or 5 line breaks before "stuff" in the textarea. AFAIK, the only way to remove the hyphens is through Javascript. You can't take them out before they are rendered. You have to take them out after they are rendered (on the client using javascript... or some other client-side browser code). How? Well, you can put the <!--IMAIL.MessageBodyForward--> tag inside a hidden textarea and parse it out from there or use a separate XML page to load up the message body first. Then use the XMLDOM object to load it into a JavaScript variable (or other client side code variable). The only problem is that XMLDOM doesn't fully support ISO-8864 (or something like that... meaning certain special characters)... and the "textarea" method won't work for certain HTML formatted emails. Personally, it's too much trouble. I'd tell your customer that it's either going to cost A LOT to remove those hyphens or tell a white lie and say it's impossible. -Norm -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guy Isabel Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 2:54 PM To: IMail Forum Subject: [IMail Forum] Inserting blank lines when replying or forwarding-with-edit Greetings, I just upgraded IMail from 7.04 to 7.07 (with new Web templates) and I find that a seemingly trivial customization I had made to the 7.04 templates does not work anymore. The underlying rationale is that users wish to have a few blank lines preceding the separator line ("Original Message") in which to start composing text. The default behavior of the stock Ipswitch templates forces them to position the cursor at the very beginning of the text area and hit <Enter> a few times. At these users' request, I had added five " " before the <!--IMAIL.MessageBodyForward--></textarea> and <!--IMAIL.MessageBodyReply--></textarea> tags in files FWDMSG1.HTML and REPLYMSG1.HTML respectively. This doesn't work in 7.07, even if I use <br> or <p> as these HTML tags show up literally rather than performing their expected function. Moreover, I also want to trim the lengthy string of hyphens preceding and following the "Original Message" separator line and am at a loss to find out where this is "hard-coded". Any help gratefully received! Guy -- Guy Isabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
