Modern Lists doesnt display all text on modern pages

[Brian Knutson]

I noticed with the classic style of sharepoint you can display single or multiple lines of text in a list on a classic style page and it will show all of the text. In the New Modern Lists, Single or Multiple lines of text displayed on a Modern page I noticed the text will start to fade the more that is typed. Can Microsoft Fix this to display all of the text? I have an attachment showing what I am talking about.

[#2]

Hi @Brian Knutson,

It seems to work for me:

Which browser are you using?

[#3]

It will display within the list. But take that list, add it to a Modern Page and display the text on the modern page. See if it shows it all. It doesnt for me. I have two photos attached. One from the list item and one added to a modern page.

[#4]

Ive been using a mixture of FF and Edge. IE once and awhile for additional features.

[#5]

Ah ok, I'm getting the same behaviour now. The single line of text is at least properly truncated and endding on ...  

The multicolumn is just being chopped.

[#6 · Accepted solution]

Yeap, I have seen this also and to me is a bug in the modern list visualization

[#7]

I hope they fix it. I know its beta so my post is a little pre-mature. I just figured since they are adding more features to SP like twitter, maybe they can update the list first. I switch to just text for displaying info but isnt a long term solution.

[#8]

Found a bug that seems to fix it. Change column to singel line of text, add formating

{

"elmType": "div",

"txtContent": "@currentField",

"style": {

"padding": "4px"

}

}

and change back to multiple line of text

[#9]

That's a great suggestion. It worked for me.

[#10]

How do you change a mutliline field to a single line of text field??

[#11]

@André NesheimI just tried applying the formatting to a Multiline text field. It works. So no need to change column types.

[#12]

@Hank de Wit I just tried the same code and it did make all of the text visible, but it is also now showing <div> and <br> tags within the multiline text field. Any ideas why? 

{"elmType": "div",
"txtContent": "@currentField",
"style": {
"padding": "4px"}
}

[#13]

@Toni Nemec 

Try changing the type of text allowed in the column to plain text

[#14]

I found another solution: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/SharePoint-Online-Modern-Experience-Multi-Line-Fie... 

However, they both display the HTML tags. I cannot apply 'Plain text' to my column because I need to keep links in the column. Help 🙂 !

[#15]

@kmktnnWhy not use a Hyperlink column?

[#16]

@André NesheimTo be more precise. In the column there is some text with more than one hyperlink and sometimes without hyperlinks. Thanks for the suggestion.

[#17]

@kmktnn & @André Nesheim do you guys now if there is a solution in place now to apply the content with hyperlinks?

[#18]

@André Nesheim Thank you for the suggestion, your method worked well for me.

However, I did run in to issues when entries in the column exceed 255 characters. Since it is a multi line column, it allows user to enter more than 255 characters. However, when the word document is opening in the app, there is a yellow banner at the top that reads: REQUIRED PROPERTIES - to save to the server, correct the invalid or missing required properties. 

There are no required properties in my library, and I found the invalid field was the one I had changed to single line of text and then back to multi line text. It seems Microsoft still thinks the character limit is 255, because when I reduced the filed to under 255, the error went away and I could save the document. 

I found another solution on the page SharePoint Online Modern Experience Multi-Line Field Display - Microsoft Tech Community It uses JSON to add a scroll bar to the multi line of text field. I am going ot try that out.

[#19]

@ShaRamch 

Have you figured out how to get a multi-line of text with Rich Text formatting to work?   I am seeing all of the HTML tags and need to display it without.