Hi Roel, doing dynamic things like the described one is very difficult using the web, because the HTTP protocol only supports a one-way communication: the client has to request a page. The OnKeyPress-Attribute is part of the JavaScript extension to HTML and allows sometimes to go around those limitiations. One could create a textarea using the following the shape of <textarea OnKeyPress="submit();" ... This would cause the textarea to be submitted every time the user hits a key. Unfortuantely this won't be useable, because a new page is then loaded into the browser and the current cursor position, the selection in the text-box, etc. are lost. It could be possible to write some more JavaScript code to handle this (and to use frames to submit only a parts of the page), but I don't suggest to do so as this won't work on different browsers and is probably too slow anyway. In general, I suggest not to use JavaScript anywhere as it harms much more than it helps ... but this is just my personal opinion. I can only give the following solutions: * Add a preview-button to your text-area to allow the user to see the actual output from time-to-time. * Have a look at XUL project (part of Mozilla) that provides some extensions to the HTTP protocol to allow creating better UIs, in fact the whole Mozilla GUI is built using this framework. As a drawback this invlolves some client-side XML and JavaScript programming and will only run on the Mozilla browser; but at least the possiblities look promising. Cheers, Lukas -- Lukas Renggli http://renggli.freezope.org