I need to add the Description for a field to the dispForm.aspx page

Question

I have some information stored in the description area of a field that needs to show up on the dispform.aspx page. It shows up on the editform.aspx but not dispform.aspx
I know there has got to be a way to do it with some JQuery or something, can someone steer me?
L.

Answer 1

Hi, I know this is an older post but I was looking for the same guidance.   I couldn't find it either.  :) 
So I started working backwards from this command that I know works for displaying the history of the multiline boxes when there are multiple versions:
<tr><td class="ms-formlabel">Comments</td>
<td class="ms-formbody" colspan="3"><xsl:value-of select="@Comments" disable-output-escaping="yes" />
<SharePoint:AppendOnlyHistory runat="server" FieldName="Comments" ControlMode="Display" ItemId="{@ID}"/></td></tr>
So checking out the “SharePoint: AppendOnlyHistory” brought me here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/microsoft.sharepoint.webcontrols.appendonlyhistory(v=office.15).aspx
Which I followed until I found this …
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/microsoft.sharepoint.webcontrols.fielddescription(v=office.15).aspx
So with some experimenting I found that this works: 
<td class="ms-formlabel"><SharePoint:FieldDescription runat="server" FieldName="ESCFReason" ControlMode="Edit" ItemId="{@ID}"/></td>
<td class="ms-formbody"><xsl:value-of select="@ESCFReason" disable-output-escaping="yes" /></td>