I am creating a program, yet again. How this works is, a zope factory calls a form, which submits data from a <textarea> to a DTML document. I want this DTML document to take the data from the form and display it on multiple lines. For instance: If a person fills out the textarea like so: First line second line third line I want the DTML document to print out: First line second line third line The only problem is, when the <textarea> submits to the document, (lets say the textarea is called list), it submits it as a dictionary. That means all the data is on a SINGLE STRING. So the data from the form looks like this. <dtml-var "REQUEST.form"> = {'list': 'first line/015/012second line/015/012third line'} the /015/012 represent the line breaks. Seeing this, i used the replace function in zope, trying to replace the line breaks with <br>, which would be accepted by html. however, whenever you try and access the information in the form as a string... <dtml-var "REQUEST.form['list']"> it comes out with line one line two line three All the line breaks dissapear! So there is nothing to replace! Does anyone have any ideas how I could solve this problem?