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!

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 t…

2x CHAR(10) double line breaks in the cell on sheets, but does nothing within Glide.

I use it all over my apps in the Rich Text component to insert line breaks without a problem.

Thanks for the feedback, nice to know although in my original post this is when you use it nested inside a formula :slight_smile:

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.

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,…

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.

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. :neutral_face:

Thank you Jeff and all, appreciate the attention here.

bump. still the case. no carriage return. need this please. tried tons of spaces but seems they trim multiple spaces to a single space.

CHAR(10) doesn't seem to be converting to a line break on Glide

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Mauronic January 15, 2021, 6:57am 16

@ThinhDinh has done it again. Using this CSS, the list element will support line breaks in rich text columns

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