I have articles in the db, and use a wrap = "virtual": on my <TEXTAREA> when submitting them. So, my data is spaced out as I typed it. Is there a way to display the 'row' as is? So I want to get what I actually typed. I tried an str_replace(" " ,"<BR>", $text), trying to be sneaky and just add breaks, but, that didn't seem to work too well. Any suggestions? thanks bryan [ bryan fitch . programmer . [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]