>is there a way to tie a textbox and or make a textbox a date data type because i am having problems passing the data from one box to the nextbecause one is binded to a feild that is a date data type and the other is just a string i triend ctod() before i passed it and the box will not hold the value i cannot seem to get it to work right is there a way to make the other box a date data type by default?

James,

In the Init of your textbox put;

This.Value = {}