Janis Kenderdine Well, from what I can see, my front door is locked. They might mess up my front lawn though. I purposely closed the box around my site - and I knew when I made the first draft that you see, that I need to add the htmlspecialcharacters stripping thingie in there - but being such a controversial thing - using a very old fashioned javascript technique that goes against modern sensibilities - I was *really* hoping to see what pros like you and Ross and Nicholas would say - and I'm learning quite a lot in the process. "