display text from textarea

Hi,

I have the textarea field where user enters any format in.  Sometime they copy text from MS and pasted into it with paragraph or tab to center, ect.  I now ouput this field but the user's inout is not accurately rendered.  All carriage returns page, tabs are lost. I've tried #paragraphFormat(desc)# but it only displayed in paragraph format .  i used pre tag with all wrap attributes but it didn't wrap the text.  Can anyone helps?

for example: if i entered this format into the text area box:

                         Hello world

this is tetsing one

this is testing two

I want it to be displayed as it on the page.

Thanks