http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2005/07/12/407637.aspxOnce in a while the question how to strip &lt;p&gt; and &lt;span&gt; tags in empty placeholders comes up in the newsgroup. A solution would be to implement a custom placeholder control that removes these tags or a workflow event. The simplest solutionen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2005/07/12/407637.aspx#1870948Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:03:55 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1870948Eric<p>Hey, granted this is older code, but any help here would be appreachated.</p> <p>I need to do this to over come a bug, but we are useing VB.net and so far nothing has worked. I have tried to use your code, but cannot find out what to include to make it all work.</p> <p>Thank you in advance</p>http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2005/07/12/407637.aspx#1871034Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:32:30 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:1871034Stefan_Gossner<p>Hi Eric,</p> <p>you need to create a custom placeholder control, derive from the original one and add the above code to it.</p> <p>Sorry I cannot help you with VB.NET. Never used it. You either need to create the placeholder control in C# or port the above code to VB.NET.</p> <p>Cheers,</p> <p>Stefan</p>