Little Problem :)

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, +------------------------------------+ ______ __ (, / ) , (__/ ) /---( _ _ _ _ _ / ) / ____)_(/_(_(_(/___(__(/_) / (_/ ( (_/ +-----------------------------------+ | Registered Linux User: 264283 | +-----------------------------------+