Re: a couple of problems with PHP form

----------------------------------------------------- sorry, my editor has not indented again ----------------------------------------------------- also, I want the field to appear hilighted when there is no information so I am doing this: <input class="<? if($error_msg){ echo "error"; } ELSE { echo "normal"; } id="firstname" name="firstname" type="text" value="{$_POST['firstname']}"? />" and I have an error class set up in my CSS, such as .error {border: 1px solid red;} this is not doinf anything either. ----------------------------------------------------- Assuming that your test for $error_msg is working correctly, change the css definition to input.error -----------------------------------------------------