Ghost value in textbox

[MikeSpider]

Hi, I have an empty textbox .
Now this is very weird!

 If textbox1.Text <> "" Then
            MsgBox("It's not empty")
        Else
            MsgBox("It's empty")
        End If

I dont write anything in the textbox but it still says "it's not empty!" if I put the cursor in the text field and press
"delete" even though i didn't write anything, it then says " it's empty!" .
Weird stuff!

[dunfiddlin]

Spaces are characters too! In a multiline box returns are characters too too! Tabs are characters too too also! Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there!

[MikeSpider]

Yes. the problem was in the text properties box. I deletedwht seemed to be a blank space.
It's working now.
Is there a function like PHP "trim()" to trim spaces or any other to prevent it interpreting spaces as characters?

Thanks

[dunfiddlin]

Yup, and strangely enough it's TextBox1.Text.Trim()

[MikeSpider]

lol
Cheers