html table code from database

Just a simple question.
when I output text that contains HTML code like a table using the replace function it creates allot of breaks between the end of the text and the start of the table, If the don't use the replace function it shows the table right after the text. There is no reason for it to create the breaks. In the replace function I am just replacing the 'chr(10)' to '< br >'.

Any suggestions or reasoning why it is doing this.

Thank you

I would need to see some code and sample data to tell what is happening.