Gang, I have a textarea-form here that looks like this: <form action="manage_addTEXT" blabla... <textarea blabla> </textarea blabla> </form> The function manage_addTEXT(self, TEXT="") gets the text from textarea as string in TEXT. It splits the text by using string.split(TEXT, '\n') into lines and stores each line in a database. For editing the TEXT I use a .dtml-script that re-assembles the text line by line: <textarea><dtml-in sqlFetchTEXT><dtml-var LINE></textarea> Please note, that I write it all without any spacing between the tags. One could think that this results in having the lines being displayed in the textarea like this: Line00Line01Line02Line03 but thats not the case. For some reason we see Line00 Line01 Line02 Line03 How's that possible? string.split() removed all the newlines. If I check the database via select LINES from TEXTBASE I see that each line is, in fact, stored separately. If I call manage_addTEXT() directly, however, i.e. not from a form, and pass a bunch of lines to it: manage_addTEXT(TEXT="ichi\nni\san\nshi\n") I end up with all lines concatenated into a single line in my edit-form that so nicely displays the put in via a form. Why is this so? There must be something about how \ns are conveyed via HTTP and how Zope handles it what I don't know. Theories, anyone? Thanks PAGE ______________________________________________________________________ Do you want a free e-mail for life ? Get it at http://www.hotmail.ro/