Interestingly, if you load that FreeTextBox demo in Firefox (1), it works fine. It maintains the text you enter in HTML mode when you switch to Design view and back again.

As you point out, Internet Explorer completely rewrites it. I believe this has the same root cause as when Visual Studio rewrites HTML when you switch from HTML to design view and back again.

The reason, apparently, is that when you switch from Design view back to HTML view, the HTML you see has been taken directly from the browser's internal rendering engine - which in IE's case is not XHTML-compliant.

Not sure if I've helped or made things more complicated ;o)

Tim

Tim,

Thanks for your response. As it turns out, you are correct. I believe the next version of IE, IE 7 (Longhorn), will be XHTML compliant. This should solve the issues I am seeing with FreeTextBox and IE. I did use FireFox and my data was rendered properly as XHTML. Just as we write javascript for different browsers, I guess I must still use work-arounds for XHTML as well.

Alex

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