User Content Formatting?

You can use WRAP="soft" or WRAP="hard" in your TEXTAREA tag. Hard sends the carriage return to the server; soft does not.

just one things: a nice little free udf from cflib.org which will
a) strip any html tags from user's input
and
b) replace #chr(10)# & #chr(13)# in the input with <br>
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Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com

I've tried HTMLCode and HTMLEdit functions so far (I realise that's not their official names but you'll no what I mean). Neither was perfect, HTMLCode kept the paragraphs but gave it a mono-font. HTMLCode didn't keep the paragraphs.

I'll try paragraphformat this evening.

Basically, I want people to be able to:
(a) type in the comments textarea field and have their paragraphs and spacing maintained.
(b) render all HTML they might put in harmless - I'll warn them this is going to happen.

That's it, loads of sites do it, I'm guessing it's not *that* complex and I'm just missing something.

Thanks.

did you try paragraphformat() function?

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Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
Vientiane, Laos
http://www.sabai-dee.com

Well, it can be as simple or as complicated as you desire.

One of the simplest is the HTML <pre></pre> tag.

Text put into this tag will NOT ignore white space characters such as
cariage returns and line feed. That is it's purpose in life. The text
is also displayed in a mono-space font by default, but CSS can modify
this if desired.