Set the value property of the textbox to {} (curly braces) for an empty date field or use date() if you wish to have the field default to 'today'. Either way will force date type entry. You can set this in the form designer or programmatically in the INIT method.

HTH
Barbara

>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?