# Is the field type of Rich Text broken?
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863
**Category:** Ask for Help
**Created:** [February 13, 2023, 2:14am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863 "2023-02-13T02:14:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@abooster](https://community.glideapps.com/u/abooster)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 2:14am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863/1 "2023-02-13T02:14:04Z")
It’s impossible to enter anything into a field type of “Rich Text”.
I mean, it’s possible to enter, but nothing is being saved.
I’m just trying to enter a text that would be used as a multi-line template.
Any ideas or suggestions?
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 2:33am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863/2 "2023-02-13T02:33:14Z")
I think it’s not working correctly, but you can just switch it to a text type column instead, and it should work fine.
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### Author:  [@abooster](https://community.glideapps.com/u/abooster)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 7:35am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863/3 "2023-02-13T07:35:26Z")
I DON’T want to “just switch to text type”.
If I wanted to do that, I probably would have done that in the first place, no?
I was saying something about MULTI-LINE.
Did you miss that part?
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 7:49am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863/4 "2023-02-13T07:49:17Z")
There is nothing stopping you from adding multi-line strings to a text type column, including HTML tags.
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### Author:  [@abooster](https://community.glideapps.com/u/abooster)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 7:54am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863/5 "2023-02-13T07:54:59Z")
Adding the `
` tag was the first thing I tried.
It’s being shown as `
` text i.e. it’s being ignored as HTML tag.
This is true for the title component.
Both in the title and the details field.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 8:00am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863/6 "2023-02-13T08:00:23Z")
Yes, that’s correct.
Rich Text (including HTML tags) is only supported when used in a Rich Text component.
Actually, HTML tags aren’t officially supported at all - but they work.
If you want to modify the appearance of other components, then you need to get into CSS, which isn’t supported at all on Apps, and only supported for Business & Enterprise plans on Pages.
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### Author:  [@abooster](https://community.glideapps.com/u/abooster)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 8:03am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863/7 "2023-02-13T08:03:17Z")
So, how did you produce the result in your screenshot?
I cannot replicate that in any text field. I won’t let me do any line breaks.
It’s not possible for me to enter a line break in a text field.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 8:08am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863/8 "2023-02-13T08:08:34Z")
I used a Rich Text component. This is the only component that supports it.
> **[Glide • Rich Text Component](https://www.glideapps.com/docs/reference/components/rich-text-component)**
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> Display data as styled content
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### Author:  [@abooster](https://community.glideapps.com/u/abooster)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 8:15am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863/9 "2023-02-13T08:15:01Z")
In this 3-year-old video (linked from the info icon when trying to add a template field) starting from 2:03 it shows exactly what I want to do i.e. add a MULTI-LINE template field. Why is that option (shown in the video) not available to use in the app?
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8a0aMU2ds)
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 8:20am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863/10 "2023-02-13T08:20:50Z")
Yes, you can still do that with a template column.
But if you want to include HTML tags or markdown text, then you need to display it using a Rich Text component.
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### Author:  [@abooster](https://community.glideapps.com/u/abooster)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 8:36am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863/11 "2023-02-13T08:36:06Z")
While I can confirm that the Rich Text _ **component** _ does make the HTML `
` work the way it’s supposed to, that’s NOT where I need it.
I need the _ **field type** _ of Rich Text to work (so I can enter line breaks for the title and the details fields in the title component).
P.S.
A 4-months-old Youtube comment on the above video says:
“Seriously, we need the ability to add line breaks into the column templates.”
I guess I’m not alone with this issue
and Glide seems to ignore the problem?
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 9:04am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863/12 "2023-02-13T09:04:06Z")
> [@abooster](#):
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> I need the _ **field type** _ of Rich Text to work (so I can enter line breaks for the title and the details fields in the title component).
I’m not 100% certain of this, but I suspect that even if there wasn’t this current issue with the Rich Text Column, it still wouldn’t work the way you’re expecting it to work. This is because the Title component does not support Rich Text.
That said, it wouldn’t be too difficult to emulate the Title component with a bit of HTML in a Rich Text component.
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### Author:  [@abooster](https://community.glideapps.com/u/abooster)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 9:25am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863/13 "2023-02-13T09:25:35Z")
> [@Darren\_Murphy](#):
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> it wouldn’t be too difficult to emulate the Title component with a bit of HTML in a Rich Text component
Now that got me curious.
How would you do that without CSS?
I mean, the title component has a background image plus text overlay.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Murphy](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Darren_Murphy)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 9:32am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863/14 "2023-02-13T09:32:31Z")
Define a HTML table with zero width borders in a template column, and use dynamic replacements to add your image and text.
I’m away from my computer at the moment, so I can’t give you an example. But it shouldn’t be too difficult.
If you actually need the text overlaid on the image, then that’s a bit trickier. Still possible with something like Cloudinary, but perhaps not worth the effort.
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### Author:  [@abooster](https://community.glideapps.com/u/abooster)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2023, 9:44am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/is-the-field-type-of-rich-text-broken/57863/15 "2023-02-13T09:44:45Z")
Right. Tables.
I guess it’s back to breaking our legs with HTML tables
like we did in the early 2000s.