Best way to format user input from forms

[twilightnights]

Anyone know a good way to do this?

 

Here is an example on my site.. I copied a joke for testing.. here is version with pre tags and set the font to sans serif via CSS

 

http://www.omgjokes.com/random.php?i=98

 

without pre

http://www.omgjokes.com/random.php?i=97

 

But the pre has a problem.. it scrolls way off the page.  Is there a way to limit how much text is on one line with pre and make it wrap?

[fenway]

If you place it inside a DIV with fixed dimensions, then you can use css overflow to handle this.