Dear All, I am getting problem while evaluating the condition. I am retrieving the values from MySQL database to show in the text boxes. Here I would like to test whether the data in the database is empty or not. If empty then I would like to show one message, if not I wanted to get the value. This is the code: ***************************************************************** <input type="text" name="date3:date" size="15" value="<dtml-if "Child_Enrollment_Date=='NULL'"><dtml-var Child_Enrollment_Date null=""><dtml-else><dtml-call "REQUEST.set('Child_Enrollment_Date1',Child_Enrollment_Date.strftime('%m/%d/%Y'))"><dtml-var Child_Enrollment_Date1 null=""></dtml-if>"> ***************************************************************** It is every time executing the <dtml-else> part. How can I validate the 'Null'? Please give your suggestions on this -- Thanks & Regards Praveen Kumar SoftPro Systems Ltd