Know-nothing-newbie question

[McCain]

You could use the isempty(request.querystring("realname") function
Or Len(request.querystring("realname"))>1

[vbmom]

I think you misunderstood. If the querystring was empty I had to assign a character to the variable so that it would not cause problems on the form.

If I had left it empty or even assigned a space character, the value = <% sVariable %> statement seemed to render the text <% sVariable %> null, so that the text assigned to the textbox via the value= was whatever followed <%...%> on the command line.

[McCain]

I'm sorry I missunderstood you. It must be my lacking English skills. And to be honest I'm still not sure I understand.

Are you saying that if sVariable == "" or sVariable == " " the value would actually be sVariable?
You would litteraly see the text sVariable in the input field?

It probably doesn't matter but you should have quotes around the value. So the line would look something like this:

<input name="realname" type="text" value="<% =sName %>" />

[vbmom]

Ok, sorry I did not explain what I meant by the form being funky.

When sName is empty (i.e. sName = "" or sName = NULL or sName = " "), this statement:

<input name="realname" type="text" value=<% =sName %> id="realname" size="30">

Inserts id="realname" or parts of that string into the textbox.

[McCain]

Ohh, that could very much be because you don't have any quotes around the value.
Try looking at the source of the page from the webbrowser (i.e. after it has passed through the webserver) and see if you spot any oddities

[vbmom]

I'll try the quotes. Thanks Tobbe. And you're English is not bad at all. You should hear my Swedish.

[Acidic]

Men ni är båda svenska!!