http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-26T11:14:39 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt1116.htm#25582 Ideally, this function should only replace ampersands that are not already part of an html escaped-string., ie: it should NOT replace the ampersand in &gt; &lt; &quot; &amp; etc.<br />So the function should incorporate some logic such that it matches only ampersand that do NOT match the regular expression /&#?\w*;/ Hutz 0 0 2004-12-17T09:45:09 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt1116.htm#25577 Beware that multiple passes of this function will cause problems with '&' (ampersand): e.g., You have a form text input that you store somewhere and prefill from that store; before storing, you run this function on the input to clean out troublesome characters, especially quotes. If there's an ampersand, it will replace it with &amp;. All fine and good, HOWEVER, the next time you submit this, even if no changes are made to the input, the '&' in '&amp;' will get converted to '&amp;', leaving you with "&amp;amp;". Every time you submit this form, you'll keep adding an 'amp;' to this string. Hutz 0 0 2004-12-17T08:52:52 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt1116.htm#18151 The HTMLEditFormat and HTMLCodeFormat functions replace the following characters:<br>< becomes &lt;<br>> becomes &gt;<br>& becomes &amp;<br>" becomes &quot;<br>They also strip return characters, but not line feeds. halL 1 1 2004-07-07T15:05:50 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/CFML_Reference/functions-pt1116.htm#18129 Would be nice to have a list of all the special characters replaced. cdary 0 0 2004-07-07T10:45:35