Actually not any modding needed. It was a template error really. The default vb3 way of doing things works fine. I updated my template the real issue was I mistakenly surrounded my code with a div tag because I had actually viewed the source of the page to get the layout etc instead of looking at the other templates in admin. I removed the div tag that surrounded it and it displays fine.
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