Hello,

Perhaps my question don't fit on a php mailing list and perhaps do it
better in a html mailing list, but sure there are people
here who knows how to solve my little problem:

I have made a little web (1)
page using php where the users can write their messages in a <form
action="add.php">. 

The add.php take the contents of the form and do the necessary to save the
data in a database.

All works fine.

I have made another web page (2) in php that reads the
database and shows the content in a table structured web page.

The Problem
============

The web Page (1) uses a <TEXTAREA> to permit the users write their things.
If one user writes something like "aaaaaaaa" and the
sentence has 200 characters 'a' without any <br> or enter '\n' then
in web page (2) the table becomes "too fat" (like <table
with="2000">, for example).

The Question
=============

How to break the large sentence to avoid the "table enlargement".
what have i to do?

- Write a little function in php that inserts "<br>'s" every 50 characters
of the large sentence? 
- Or there is something easier in html that is able to
"lock" the table width?? In that case... what?

Example
=======

user writes: "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

in the web must appear something like: 

 table width
 |--------|
   aaaaaa
   aaaaaa
   aaaaaa
   aaaaaa


It's a silly question, but I'm a really newbie php/html-user :).

Thanks in advance,

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