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a small workaround that you can try would be to add an extra carriage return
at the beginning of the textbox if one exists already... if you do a little
experiment, adding 2 carriage returns and some text will produce one blank
line, 3 will produce 2, 4 will produce 3, etc.

So here's my solution... In the page load do the following:

TextBox1.Text = IIf(TextBox1.Text.IndexOf(vbCrLf) = 0,vbCrLf &
TextBox1.Text,TextBox1.Text)

Hope this helps,
Garett

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"Oliver" <> wrote in message
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> I hope some can help me with a slight problem.
>
> I have a form with a multi-line text box. The problem I have is when the
user enters a carriage return followed by some text, the form is posted back
and the value of text box is correct. It includes the leading carriage
return.
>
> However, when the textbox is redisplayed on the client, any leading
carriage returns are lost and need to re-entered each time.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Oliver

Thanks guys

Using a slightly modified version of your sugguestion Garett, I was able to get it to work. Instead of prefixing the text with an additional CR I used a space. Thus avoiding the need to calcalate the number of additional CRs required

TextBox1.Text = IIf( TextBox1.Text.IndexOf(vbCrLf) = 0, Format("_{0}",TextBox1.Text), TextBox1.Text