Also look at the WRAP NOWRAP options on the HTML TEXTAREA tag. But the most straight-forward way was to use the vbScript Replace function.

- Dave

>Hello
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> when i use the Text Area control from visual interdev in an ASP page. and then when i use the page. and i enter multiple line data into the text area without pressing on enter key then its no problem.
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>But then when i press the enter key in the text area to enter a multiple line text. Then the newline character gets stored in the database and i have problems retrieving that particular data from the database.
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>Is there a solution to this problem?
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>Thanks