Thanks Jason, I have inserted the line of code you gave me but nothing happened I have obviously put it in the wrong place can you be more specific and tell me exactly where i should put it below is where i did thanks Alistair
<?php echo((isset($_POST["country"]))?str_replace("<br>", "<br />", $_POST["country"]):"") ?>
<?php } // Show if recordset empty ?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">