# Ui template or ui text formated string
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-template-or-ui-text-formated-string/54579
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [1 December 2021 14:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-template-or-ui-text-formated-string/54579 "2021-12-01T14:32:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@henkkas](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/henkkas)
#### Post date: [1 December 2021 14:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-template-or-ui-text-formated-string/54579/1 "2021-12-01T14:32:53Z")
Hey guys, I have a telegram from smartmeter, and it looks like this when I debug,
That looks very good. But when I feed this to ui template or ui text, then it looks like this,
Can anyone tell me, how to keep the format?
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [1 December 2021 15:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-template-or-ui-text-formated-string/54579/2 "2021-12-01T15:32:55Z")
You need to replace the new lines with `
` tags.
One way is a change node using the regular expression `(?:\r\n|\r|\n)` which replaces DOS \r\n as well as Unix \n
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [1 December 2021 15:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-template-or-ui-text-formated-string/54579/3 "2021-12-01T15:33:03Z")
You need the display to use a fixed-width font and to retain the line-feeds. In HTML, the easy way to do that is to wrap the text with `...
`. You can use a template to do that.
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### Author:  [@henkkas](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/henkkas)
#### Post date: [1 December 2021 15:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-template-or-ui-text-formated-string/54579/4 "2021-12-01T15:46:11Z")
I tried your suggestion,
But the result wasn't quite good yet....
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### Author:  [@henkkas](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/henkkas)
#### Post date: [1 December 2021 15:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-template-or-ui-text-formated-string/54579/5 "2021-12-01T15:58:48Z")
@TotallyInformation You were right. This is the result,
The fixed-width font was automatically set, by the way.
Only pitty a little bit that the font was changed, but I can live with that.
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### Author:  [@henkkas](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/henkkas)
#### Post date: [1 December 2021 16:04 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-template-or-ui-text-formated-string/54579/6 "2021-12-01T16:04:15Z")
@TotallyInformation and @jbudd , thank you all guys for your help, I appreciate it very much.
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### Author:  [@jbudd](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jbudd)
#### Post date: [1 December 2021 16:06 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-template-or-ui-text-formated-string/54579/7 "2021-12-01T16:06:48Z")
Is that output to a template? I tried it with a UI text node.
Anyway of course Julian's answer was better! 😀
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [1 December 2021 16:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-template-or-ui-text-formated-string/54579/8 "2021-12-01T16:12:47Z")
You _can_ change the font in Dashboard. Using CSS.
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### Author:  [@henkkas](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/henkkas)
#### Post date: [1 December 2021 17:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-template-or-ui-text-formated-string/54579/9 "2021-12-01T17:14:07Z")
@TotallyInformation , you were right again. Here is the result,
I am not very familiar with HTML and CSS but I managed,
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [2 December 2021 19:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-template-or-ui-text-formated-string/54579/10 "2021-12-02T19:23:50Z")
> [@henkkas](#):
>
> I am not very familiar with HTML and CSS
That's why the internet was invented 😀
I always have to look stuff up as well.
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### Author:  [@henkkas](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/henkkas)
#### Post date: [3 December 2021 09:32 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-template-or-ui-text-formated-string/54579/11 "2021-12-03T09:32:24Z")
@TotallyInformation , indeed, and I learned most of `W3schools`. 😀
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [2 January 2022 09:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/ui-template-or-ui-text-formated-string/54579/12 "2022-01-02T09:33:05Z")
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