What's even more funny is that the solution I provided - and which appears to be totally invisible to everyone - does not include any javascript (thank you very much), gives you an 'animated' button...

Well, no.

I am really, REALLY missing something here.

<div style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; border-color:#FFFFFF;
border-style:solid" CLASS="divname" ...

Am I missing something? :)

The question was .

The solution I offered may not be what you'd class as 'only css' but it doesn't have a H REF and it assigns properties to a class. Is that wrong?

This may help you get started:

http://javascript.internet.com/forms/strip-characters.html

You just tell the script which characters to want taken out and it does it. I haven't tested this...

It isn't a security thing. It's just what happens when you copy from one application and paste into another most times.

I notice it most in forums where people type their replies in Word and then...

What are you copying and pasting from?

Unless you are copying pure text from a text editor, anything you grab from a website or Word document will likely contain some formatting characters and...

OK. preg_replace isn't the way to go - it appears that there's a bug of some sort from what I could find on the subject. Sorry for misleading you.

This definitely works, though, because this time...

You need to use a script to strip out the unwanted codes.

In PHP you could use the preg_replace:

http://uk2.php.net/preg_replace

Or if you wanted to use JavaScript here's an example with...

It's a textarea field I think you're referring to, unless I've misunderstood e.g.:

<div style="position:absolute; left:10px; top:10px"
CLASS="somediv"><textarea name="msg" style="border:1px; ...

The way I do it is as follows (for example):

<div style="position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; border-color:#FFFFFF;
border-style:solid" CLASS="divname" ...