Best control to display text from database on web page aspx

From: "heinz" <billreyn@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 8 Nov 2006 09:43:13 -0800

What control is best to display ordinary text on an aspx web page?
For example, a short newspaper article as the main content.

In html is just in a table, but whats the best way of doing it in
asp.net 2?
Is it a GridView, a DetailView, a Label, a FormView control, a
DataList?

They can all kind of do it, but which is best?

Thanks

Heinz

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