# CHAR(10) doesn't seem to be converting to a line break on Glide
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454
**Category:** Report a Bug
**Created:** [January 8, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454 "2020-01-08T22:41:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@Zing3r](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Zing3r)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/1 "2020-01-08T22:41:59Z")
Hi Team Glide,
Just letting you know that CHAR(10) doesn’t seem to be converting to a line break when interpreted by Glide.
When CHAR(10) is nested in a formula it shows on the cell as a new line, however does not on Glide.
Not sure if this was by design but hope that helps, great job so far!
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### Author:  [@apertur.co](https://community.glideapps.com/u/apertur.co)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/2 "2020-01-08T23:00:42Z")
Did you try 2 x CHAR(10)?
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### Author:  [@Zing3r](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Zing3r)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 11:05pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/3 "2020-01-08T23:05:20Z")
2x CHAR(10) double line breaks in the cell on sheets, but does nothing within Glide.
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### Author:  [@apertur.co](https://community.glideapps.com/u/apertur.co)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/4 "2020-01-08T23:39:40Z")
I use it all over my apps in the Rich Text component to insert line breaks without a problem.
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### Author:  [@Zing3r](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Zing3r)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 11:49pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/5 "2020-01-08T23:49:38Z")
Thanks for the feedback, nice to know although in my original post this is when you use it nested inside a formula 🙂
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### Author:  [@apertur.co](https://community.glideapps.com/u/apertur.co)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 12:37am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/6 "2020-01-09T00:37:02Z")
Yes, I use it nested in formulas; Rich Text just references the cells containing those formulas. CHAR() is a spreadsheet function, so it has to be outside any quotation marks in your formula.
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### Author:  [@John\_Cabrera](https://community.glideapps.com/u/John_Cabrera)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/7 "2020-01-09T01:54:40Z")
Is it possible that you are expecting a line break on a Glide element that does not support line breaks? For example, “Details” and “Titles” on inline lists do not support line breaks. So if you have char(10) in your column/cell that is being grabbed by the the Title or Detail field in a Glide list, Glide will simply ignore the break. What you’re trying to do only works on one element currently: RichText. I’m really hoping this will change though… I’m actually using the Title and Details of Inline lists to create a text content feed (like a twitter) and it’s a bummer that you can’t use Markdown or HTML in those elements.
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### Author:  [@Zing3r](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Zing3r)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 10:05am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/8 "2020-01-09T10:05:45Z")
Ah, understood. I didn’t know that Glide didn’t support line breaks.
Seeing as though they support it in a rich text field I’m hopeful it’s not too far on the horizon.
Agreed, it would be nice if the app passed on line breaks, Markdown and HTML- I’m sure the team is working hard.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/9 "2020-01-09T14:59:23Z")
Like @John_Cabrera and @apertur.co said, you can only do line breaks in rich text components, but another thing to try would be 2 spaces and a CRLF (space, space, alt+enter) in place of the char(10). Or at the very least, try just the CRLF (alt+enter), but I think that might not work. If you are trying to do this outside of a rich text component, then it probably won’t work.
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### Author:  [@John\_Cabrera](https://community.glideapps.com/u/John_Cabrera)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 8:08pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/10 "2020-01-09T20:08:33Z")
Aww, man. I was so hoping you’d found some clever hack there @Jeff_Hager, because having at least carriage returns on those Title, Detail, and Caption fields would be huge for my app. But alas, it still doesn’t work. 😐
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### Author:  [@Zing3r](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Zing3r)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2020, 8:48pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/11 "2020-01-09T20:48:46Z")
Thank you Jeff and all, appreciate the attention here.
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### Author:  [@Adam\_Acosta](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Adam_Acosta)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2020, 6:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/12 "2020-09-30T18:13:16Z")
bump. still the case. no carriage return. need this please. tried tons of spaces but seems they trim multiple spaces to a single space.
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2020, 4:30am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/13 "2020-10-01T04:30:38Z")
Do we have any equivalents of the empty character for this? I guess even so it will be hard to make this case work.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2020, 4:38am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/14 "2020-10-01T04:38:17Z")
Nothing that I can think of right now.
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### Author:  [@Mauronic](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mauronic)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/15 "2021-01-15T00:03:23Z")
I could really use this functionality for Title and Details as well!
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### Author:  [@Mauronic](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mauronic)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2021, 6:57am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/char-10-doesnt-seem-to-be-converting-to-a-line-break-on-glide/3454/16 "2021-01-15T06:57:53Z")
@ThinhDinh has done it again. Using this CSS, the list element will support line breaks in rich text columns
> [@Glide's Community Built Messenger](https://community.glideapps.com/t/glides-community-built-messenger/20247/54):
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> Here you are. I’m using a list layout. \\\ [data-test="list-item-subtitle"].textDetailStyle { font-size: 13px; } [data-test="list-item"] .navigationIcon { display: none; } [data-test="list-item-title"] { padding-bottom: 5px; } [data-test="list-item"].allow-wrapping .textDetailStyle{ white-space: pre-wrap; } [data-test="list-item"]{ align-items: end; }