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Add Line Breaks within Cells in Interactive Tables

New Feature Addition · Interactive tables · Created by mikoyose
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data-management tables interactive-tables line-break

What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?

  There's no ability to add a line break within a cell in the interactive tables.  

How does this feature request address the current situation?

  When creating larger tables with multiple sets of information, this would make it easier to read. Instead of having to use slashes or commas, you could have it formatted as a list within one cell. So instead of having something like:  
Languages Known
Elvish, English, Common
  -or-  
Languages Known
Elvish / English / Common / Japanese / German / Terran / Klingon
    It could have an option to look like this too:  
Languages Known
English Japanese German
  In this example, it doesn't look that messy, but for my tables, I have relationships between characters, and that gets messy really fast when I have twenty plus characters that I'm trying to track on a quick sheet.  It ends up as a long single sentence that I use the forward slash to separate.   I use Excel frequently and wanted to be able to replace the Excel spreadsheets I have for my characters and worlds with the interactive tables, but after talking with your staff, and after lots of testing, there's nothing that can add a line break within a cell. This makes longer information, such as relationships between characters, hard for me to read. I like having a "quick guide" for this, and being able to separate them onto different lines would make it infinitely more readable than using commas or slashes to separate them out.   It would make tables potentially more readable and useable for those who want quick reference guides for relationships between characters or places.  Languages known, things of that nature.  However, since I'm not sure how those tables are coded, I don't know what it might break to add support for the line break element within the cell itself.  That was one of the first things I tried, and it literally does nothing.  It doesn't show up like text in the cell, but it also doesn't actually add a line break.  And when contacting your support, they came back and said this wasn't currently supported.  

What are other uses for this feature request?

I'm not really sure, this is just a minor adjustment that would make it far more accessible to me.  I'm in data analytics and use Excel frequently and this functionality would just make life easier.  Maybe other people could use it too.  =)   Let me know if anything doesn't make sense or I need to clarify.  Thank you!

Follow up


So, it looked good in my post, but the tables didn't do what I wanted them to. The table should look like this:   Languages Known Elvish Common English German   Not all across like that... it looked formatted correctly in the WYSIWYG editor, but the tables in those clearly don't support line breaks in the way I did them either lol. =)
I... have no idea why it did that to me in my update too. This is apparently impossible for me to display correctly since the editor isn't displaying it the way it's going to look, so let me try this instead.   <b>Languages Known</b><br> Elvish<br> Common<br> English<br> German<br>   I added the actual HTML code... so we'll see if that displays correctly.
Well, this is just highlighting my problem perfectly right now with these updates. =) I have no idea how to format this so it looks like it should, so I guess I'll live with it and hope my point gets across. If it doesn't, I guess I'll resubmit at some point in the future. Anyway! I may open up a reddit discussion so that way I can paste a picture or something since this is... not working the way I want it to. Thank you for reading!
LAST FOLLOW UP FROM ME:   It shows correctly on the Reddit discussion if you want to see what I mean. Thank you again for reading!

The Team's Response

I am not against it but this has too low support as it stands.
Current score

23/300 Votes · +4705 points

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