Write to HTML page

[philosophology]

How can you write the contents of a textarea exactly like it is (with carriage returns and all) in an html page?

for example the textarea has this in it:

line1line1
line2
line3line3

I DO NOT WANT THE HTML TO BE LIKE THIS:
line1line1 line2 line3line3

[NogDog]

The simple way:

<pre><?php
echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['fieldname']);
?></pre>

Another option:

<p> <!-- or whatever other HTML markup element you want to use -->
<?php
echo nl2br(htmlspecialchars($_POST['fieldname']));
?>
</p>