I am new to ASP development and really need some help. I am sending information from a web form and everything works fine getting the data, except the message value has a ,(comma) being added at the beginning of the message entered in the html form. Anyone have an idea? I've been working for this for days and don't have a clue as to why this is happening.

This is a section of the form code:

<form method="POST" action="email_send.asp">


<td colspan="1"><font size="1" face="VERDANA, ARIAL"><b><BR>
Request or Comment:</b></font><font size="2" face="VERDANA, ARIAL"><b><BR>
</b></font><font face="VERDANA"><textarea name="message" rows="3" cols="45" wrap="auto" ></textarea></font>

<td><font size="" face="ARIAL" ><BR><input type="submit" value="Send Message" ></font><BR>
<BR><font face="ARIAL"><INPUT TYPE="RESET" VALUE="Reset Form" ></font></td>


Here is the ASP file: email_send.asp

<%
'Sends an email
Dim mail
Set mail = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")
mail.To = "gclarkox@direcway.com"
mail.From = Request.Form("email")
mail.Subject ="Website request or comment"
mail.HTMLBody ="<h5>Name: </h5>" & Request.Form("title") &(" ") & Request.Form("name") & "<h5>Company: </h5>"& Request.Form("company") & "<h5>EMail Address: </h5>"& Request.Form("email") &"<h5>Address: </h5>" & Request.Form("address") &"<h5>Phone #: </h5>"& Request.Form("phone") &"<h5>Fax #: </h5>"& Request.Form("fax") &"<h5>Category Selected: </h5>"& Request.Form("category") &"<h5>Request or Comment: </h5>"& Request.Form("message")
mail.Send()
Response.Write("Your request or comment has been sent! Your message was: ")
Response.Write(Request.Form("messages"))
'Destroy the mail object!
Set mail = nothing
%>
<%
Dim objMessage

Set objMessage = Server.CreateObject("CDO.Message")
With objMessage
' Set message attributes
.To = Request.Form("email")
.From = "Gene Clark<gclarkox@direcway.com>"
.Subject = "Thank you from Battin's Lawn Service"
'.TextBody = "This email should have an attachment attached!"
.CreateMHTMLBody "file://c:/inetpub/wwwroot/flyer.html"
' Attachment using known static physical path
'.AddAttachment "c:\somepath\somefile.txt"
' Attachment using mappath to find the physical path
'.AddAttachment Server.MapPath("xxx.gif")
' Attachment added directly from a URL
'.AddAttachment "http://xxx.gif"

' Send messages.
.Send
End With
Set objMessage = Nothing
%>

The output to the email message is:

, This is the message that is input into the textarea from the html form.

Thank you so much for your review, comments and time.

Usually when you get something like that, it's because you have two fields named message. When this occurs, the data from each field is separated by a comma.

Maybe it's a hidden field or something.

Thanks for the hint...I'll look for that. Have a good one!

That was it...Thank you so much, I really appreciate the assistance.

Not a problem. Glad it worked!