# Wordwrap in PHP?

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**Created:** [July 18, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wordwrap-in-php/232951 "2007-07-18T23:23:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 18, 2007, 11:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wordwrap-in-php/232951/1 "2007-07-18T23:23:48Z")

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can anyone help with a super noob question??? im pulling a field named “desc” from MySQL and using PHP to output it…

```php

     <? echo $desc; ?>

```

but it outputs the “desc” in a single line a mile long!

i want the text to wrap within the

…

is that a property of the table like this:

```auto

STYLE="table-layout:fixed";

```

or is there a wordwrap in php???

maybe i can solve this using CSS???