Hello all, please can someone help me coz its pissing me off!!!!!!! I am trying to valudate a text area to make sure that the person dosent type more than 250 chars into it. this is the code i have been playing with (although the else bit will be return("true") int he long run!) it is a mixture of vbscript and javascript using asp (as we need to do validation in javascript) <%if len(request.form("dtmcomments")) > 250 then%> { alert("Comments too long ya bugger!"); return(false); } <%else%> { alert("Comments fine ya bugger!"); return(false); } <%end if%> to me this says that if i type in less then 250 chars it should return the second comment or if i type more than 250 chars it will return the first comment. However it ALWAYS returns the second comment! Please can someone tell me WHY!!!!!! (sorry to be such a pleb!) ____________________________________ Donna Crowden DEFRA - ITD (A) B Room A911, Guild HQ GTN. 1453 Ext. 3450 Tel: 01483 403450 ____________________________________