# Multi-Line Text Fields

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-line-text-fields/66021>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [November 2, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-line-text-fields/66021 "2022-11-02T18:47:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![agriner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@agriner](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/agriner)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-line-text-fields/66021/1 "2022-11-02T18:47:05Z")

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With text fields, is there way to show them across multiple lines (or to utilize line breaks)?  
Labels seem to do that automatically but I haven't seen a style setting that allows text field strings to be split across lines.  
It feels like I'm missing something really basic here.

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**Author:** ![lrose](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/lrose/32/62724_2.png) [@lrose](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/lrose)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-line-text-fields/66021/2 "2022-11-02T19:13:22Z")

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Text Fields are fundamentally single-line. If you need multi-line text entry, you should use the Text Area component.

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**Author:** ![agriner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@agriner](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/agriner)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multi-line-text-fields/66021/3 "2022-11-02T19:16:47Z")

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Ah okay, I figured I missed something obvious. Thanks for demystifying that for me 👍