Hamzat, could your problem be because the textarea html tag doesn't have a 'value' attribute? The value of a textarea input is the content of the tag. Perhaps change 'tal:attribute="value here/something|nothing"' to 'tal:content="here/something|nothing"' or the like? C ******************************** Cris Ewing Department of Radiology Web Services University of Washington School of Medicine Work Phone: (206) 598-8706 Home Phone: (206) 365-3413 E-mail: cewing@u.washington.edu *******************************