Formatting html tags for mysql insert query...

[Warren]

Hello all.

I apologize if this has been asked a thousand times, but I must be pretty
thick because I have searching through google for the last day, and still
haven't any found concrete guidance...

Win Xp
MySql 4.0.13
ASP
VBscript

I would like some guidance on how to format a SQL string in asp to insert a
HTML string to a text field.
MySql keeps adding white space to the tags..

ie <P> ends up in the dbase as < P >

I have read multiple posts about 'escape' characters, etc... but still not
sure how to tackle this.

Any suggestions / ideas

Thanks in advance

Warren M