Text Area Question

Hi, I have a form with a text area, what I would like to do is What ever text the user types into the textarea will be entered into a database with the same formatting they used when typing in the data. For exampe: Hello PHP World If they type it so that it looks exactly like that, I want it to post that same way on the webpage when it gets the info from the database. I thought that if they type that way and the info saves into a blob record it would save the breaks, but when i go to get the info to display on the webpage its just one really long line, I tried using <pre> but it was still one line. I notcided that if I didnt let the text wrap on its own in the textarea it looked the way I wanted, but to keep it from wrapping you had to enter before the text started wrap. The area needs to be no more than 150 characters wide, so I was wandering if there is a way to make it insert a break before the text wraps, so that the user wont have to hit enter everytime before the text starts to wrap. Sorry for such the long question, this was kinda hard for me to explain, but I really appreciate it.