# Multiline text entry

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/multiline-text-entry/27323>\
**Category:** Dashboard\
**Created:** [26 May 2020 17:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/multiline-text-entry/27323 "2020-05-26T17:14:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![ltcolumbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3bc359/32.png) [@ltcolumbo](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ltcolumbo)\
**Post date:** [26 May 2020 17:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/multiline-text-entry/27323/1 "2020-05-26T17:14:27Z")

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Is there a way to adapt the text input node to multiline text? I see there is the option in the form node, but it would be great to do it somehow with the text input node too. Maybe there is something I'm not seeing. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![JGKK](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/jgkk/32/18515_2.png) [@JGKK](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/JGKK)\
**Post date:** [26 May 2020 17:37 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/multiline-text-entry/27323/2 "2020-05-26T17:37:50Z")

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Have you thought about using the ui template node? As you can put any html and css in there you could make a multiline text very easily.

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**Author:** ![ltcolumbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3bc359/32.png) [@ltcolumbo](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ltcolumbo)\
**Post date:** [27 May 2020 11:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/multiline-text-entry/27323/3 "2020-05-27T11:26:49Z")

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Yes. I can do that. It's a little more effort to make it look good. It seemed like an omission to me that multiline text is an sub-option for the form input node, but isn't an available option for the text input node. It would be a nice to have feature. I wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [26 June 2020 11:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/multiline-text-entry/27323/4 "2020-06-26T11:41:12Z")

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