Hey all, Here's something I've wanted to do in the past, but being unable to figure it out just worked around it. Does anyone know of a good, secure solution to strip html characters like htmlspecialchars() does, for security sake and proper page viewing, but allow text formatting tags, like <b>, <i>, <u>, <big>, <small>, <font>, etc? I'd like to allow people to input large text articles via web forms (textareas), but still allow some level of attractiveness to the output -- by allowing them to format the text with HTML tags. Any ideas? -Mike -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]