dynamic insert text in web page

Text displayed on a web page needs to be in html to have formatting, otherwise it is simply displayed as plain text, with all multiple
spaces reduced to a single space and no carriage returns. You need to either store the html in the database (usual if you are storing the whole page), or add html to the text after it has been extracted from the database and before you display it (perhaps if you are assembling a page from multiple small bits of text extracted from the database.