>Hi everybody,
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>I'm trying to figure out why the description field misses the line breaks when displayed in the web page.
>
>
>Do you see what may be wrong here?

That's the way HTML works. Carrier return/line breaks aren't displayed by default. You could embed this in a <pre> tag instead of a <p> tag. Or, replace your CR's with <br/> Something like: rdr["Description"].ToString().Replace("\n", "<br/>")