Quoting Richard Carpenter <rcarpenter at brandxnet.com>: > I thought about checking against this regular expression > /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-])(\@)(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])(\.)([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})$/ Don't. The shortest known regular expression that will *correctly* validate an email address is multiple pages long. -chuck -- "Regard my poor demoralized mule!" - Juan Valdez