tags but this just gives me 3 very long lines of text (one for each paragraph) - the horizontal scroll bar appears on the browser even though I inserted the text in a table and set the width. i am currently running: <%# DataBinder.Eval(Container,"DataItem.[review]")%> where review is a formated article stored in an sql server database. when I view the article in a text box I get paragraph breaks but these are lost when I present the data in a table. Any help would be greatly appreciated Thanks, Richard