Okay, makes sense, but does not explain why the text suddenly appears when I remove the photo field...?? As I mentioned above it works fine when the text datatype is VARCHAR - what confuses me is that I have used the same datatypes on earlier websites with no problems...

Luckily the propertyDescription will not be too long, about 800 chars max...this text is not a caption - I just simplified the code above to illustrate my problem - it is all placed within a table on the page.

Thanks for your help

Peter