# Text formatting (like line break) in Perspective Table cell?

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**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [March 17, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-formatting-like-line-break-in-perspective-table-cell/23399 "2019-03-17T13:59:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![NorthPoint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a88e4f/32.png) [@NorthPoint](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/NorthPoint)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-formatting-like-line-break-in-perspective-table-cell/23399/1 "2019-03-17T13:59:15Z")

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Perspective table cells don’t seem to interpret HTML, and the ‘n’ and ‘r’ escapes don’t seem to function. ’ &nbsp;’ did not seem to work either. Is there a way to format text within Perspective table cells?

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**Author:** ![silverbacknet](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/silverbacknet/32/7385_2.png) [@silverbacknet](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/silverbacknet)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 12:15am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/text-formatting-like-line-break-in-perspective-table-cell/23399/2 "2019-04-01T00:15:42Z")

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I’m not sure about any other formatting, but you can change the whiteSpace style to pre, pre-wrap, or pre-line to preserve real line breaks. (I typically use pre-line, since I still want accidental double-spaces to go away. Use pre to preserve double-spaces, as well.) Then just add them in, or format them with “\n” in Python.

You can change the style at any level from the cell to the overall table.