# Template column question - how do i

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/template-column-question-how-do-i/23137>\
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**Created:** [February 20, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/template-column-question-how-do-i/23137 "2021-02-20T16:13:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/template-column-question-how-do-i/23137/1 "2021-02-20T16:13:40Z")

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Set up a template column for multiple lines?  
Name  
Address  
City, ST ZIp

I can set up the template column, I just cant get GE to leave the spaces and new lines in place. It only shows the first line of my template column. It will show Name but nothing else

I have tried putting 2 spaces after the column names and then pressing the enter key.  
What am i missing or doing wrong?

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/template-column-question-how-do-i/23137/2 "2021-02-20T16:59:05Z")

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Is it just like that in the data editor? Does it show all the data when you view the column in a component? I don’t see a problem with what you are doing and I would have recommended the ‘2 spaces and enter’ method. The row in the data editor won’t get wider to show everything, but it doesn’t mean that the data isn’t there. Do you have a screenshot?

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**Author:** ![22c304](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/22c304/32/19733_2.png) [@22c304](https://community.glideapps.com/u/22c304)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/template-column-question-how-do-i/23137/3 "2021-02-20T17:40:59Z")

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**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 5:41pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/template-column-question-how-do-i/23137/4 "2021-02-20T17:41:34Z")

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**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 5:42pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/template-column-question-how-do-i/23137/5 "2021-02-20T17:42:07Z")

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Hager](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/jeff_hager/32/43_2.png) [@Jeff\_Hager](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Jeff_Hager)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/template-column-question-how-do-i/23137/6 "2021-02-20T17:56:34Z")

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Your first and third screenshots look fine. It looks like you have everything set up correctly. However, carriage returns aren’t recognized in a list like you are showing in your second screenshot. It will only respect the carriage returns in components like text or rich text. A list will attempt to remove the carriage returns and show as much text as it can in the limited space that it has. Your best best is to try to utilize all of the Data and Overlays settings for the list to try to get everything to display how you want.

Similar thread:

> [@Text wrap](https://community.glideapps.com/t/text-wrap/22516):
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> In my Googe sheet I have a wrapped text in three lines in one cell. In Glide, the wrap does not appear although I checked in the text style the wrap.

Otherwise you could play around with some CSS manipulation to see if you can get the text to wrap.

> [@Text wrapping for Overlay Inline List](https://community.glideapps.com/t/text-wrapping-for-overlay-inline-list/20162):
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> Hi! I would like to add text wrapping to my overlay text for an inline list in tile style. I see this is not possible, only when the text is below the image. Does anyone know of a workaround? Thanks!

> [@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. \<pre\>\<span\>\<style\> [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; }

Existing Feature Requests:

> [@Inline List with word wrap](https://community.glideapps.com/t/inline-list-with-word-wrap/4584):
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> It would be interesting for the user to be able to choose the best option without having to navigate to the details screen

> [@Wrap text in Inline Lists](https://community.glideapps.com/t/wrap-text-in-inline-lists/2208):
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> It would be great to have the Wrap Text option for lists and inline lists. Either that or allow for the image field in the new Tiles layout to be set as nothing/blank so that the full titles can be shown using the new text wrap feature.

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**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/template-column-question-how-do-i/23137/7 "2021-02-20T18:12:50Z")

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To get the carriage returns to show up you have to use CSS placed in a rich text component on a details screen that has an in-line list of the information with you to display. You’ll need to replace the “your components CSS class” below with the class name of the inline list description field that contains the address.

```auto
<pre><span><style>
(Your component’s CSS class){
white-space: break-spaces;
}

```

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**Author:** ![22c304](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/22c304/32/19733_2.png) [@22c304](https://community.glideapps.com/u/22c304)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 6:41pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/template-column-question-how-do-i/23137/8 "2021-02-20T18:41:28Z")

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Many thanks…

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**Author:** ![Carlos\_DeSilva](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/carlos_desilva/32/19965_2.png) [@Carlos\_DeSilva](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Carlos_DeSilva)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2021, 9:53pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/template-column-question-how-do-i/23137/9 "2021-02-20T21:53:36Z")

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Interesting. I found a way around this using the Concatenate function in GS. for each line, I used a bullet point in the string, then for every line break or carriage return, I added a Char(10) function inline, naturally put into a Rich Text Component.