# Bug: text boxes **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Feedback\ **Created:** [May 29, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977 "2018-05-29T08:01:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_Olenick](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/michael_olenick/32/1068_2.png) [@Michael\_Olenick](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Michael_Olenick)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 8:01am UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977/1 "2018-05-29T08:01:43Z")
When typing in card mode on a table, and filling in a text field, the entry is lost if it contains a newline (using a Mac, at least). That is, whatever you typed will not be saved to the underlying sheet; it vanishes. Along the same lines, when copying multiple paragraphs into a textfield, in card mode, only the first is copied (when it gets to the line break it stops copying). However, I can copy into a text editor so the entire text block is in the copy buffer: it just isn’t accepted as input into the Coda textfield. If, however, you first type one line without a line break (generated with option-return), then come back, you can type all the lines you want. If you type multiple-lines directly into the grid, not in card mode, multiple lines are handled fine. This bug is reproducible for me. Using macOS 10.13.4 w/ Chrome 66.0.3359.181. ---
**Author:** ![Naqushab\_Neyazee](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/naqushab_neyazee/32/1001_2.png) [@Naqushab\_Neyazee](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Naqushab_Neyazee)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 5:51pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977/2 "2018-05-29T17:51:39Z")
+1 Text lost issue is reproducible to me too. Windows 10 machine. ---
**Author:** ![nathan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/nathan/32/5616_2.png) [@nathan](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/nathan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977/3 "2018-05-29T18:55:40Z")
Thanks @Michael_Olenick and @Naqushab_Neyazee for reporting this. Could you send a screenshot of specifically where you are editing that this occurs? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Olenick](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/michael_olenick/32/1068_2.png) [@Michael\_Olenick](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Michael_Olenick)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 7:25pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977/4 "2018-05-29T19:25:02Z")
![Coda-1](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/original/2X/f/f56afa743e27b26b236cfb35f98dd6dbd791b27f.png) First shot shows me typing stuff in card mode. Second shot shows the row with nothing there. [Edit - after submitting it says new users can only put one image per post – I’d suggest changing that for bug reports. In any event the second one shows grid mode with nothing there.] ---
**Author:** ![nathan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/nathan/32/5616_2.png) [@nathan](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/nathan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 7:41pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977/5 "2018-05-29T19:41:49Z")
Thanks @Michael_Olenick. Still trying to reproduce this - here’s what I’m getting. What are you doing to commit the values you type in the description field? ![card](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/original/2X/a/ae1f941ffea1bcc705d03bc5a13e27759ad6323b.png) ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Olenick](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/michael_olenick/32/1068_2.png) [@Michael\_Olenick](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Michael_Olenick)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977/6 "2018-05-29T19:45:00Z")
Just typing then closing the card window or moving to the next one. Skype w/ screen-share? I’m in Europe but it’s getting late here. I don’t want to post my email/Skype here - is there a way to DM? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Olenick](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/michael_olenick/32/1068_2.png) [@Michael\_Olenick](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Michael_Olenick)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 7:55pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977/7 "2018-05-29T19:55:59Z")
Just looked closely and I can see the problem. Your example is “line 1 here line 2 here”… They’re all on the same line. You need multiple lines – line breaks. How you make them depends on the OS But, if you add line breaks, they disappear. ---
**Author:** ![Naqushab\_Neyazee](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/naqushab_neyazee/32/1001_2.png) [@Naqushab\_Neyazee](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Naqushab_Neyazee)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 8:41pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977/8 "2018-05-29T20:41:52Z")
@nathan I am already following this up with Molly via email and she confirmed that this is an issue but haven’t heard from her a while. It happens intermittently. The steps, however are these: 1. I have a document with 4 sections and it has multiple views in them(16) 2. In those views, I edit or add some info in the columns 3. When added, I usually switch to any other section, to any other view to add data there 4. When I go back to the previous section, I see some of the information is not saved and is missing I have also checked for previous versions to chek if data is lost somewhere, but it appears not to be written anywhere too. ---
**Author:** ![nathan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/nathan/32/5616_2.png) [@nathan](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/nathan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977/9 "2018-05-29T20:45:44Z")
Thanks @Naqushab_Neyazee. We’re aware of the bug where switching sections doesn’t save values that you were editing, and are working on a fix. Cards today only support 1 line of text for each field – they’ll show just part of the first line, and if multiple lines can fit, they’ll just merge onto a single line. This limitation may be what some of you are experiencing. However, saving multiple lines of lines text from the detail view should always commit the values – if you reopen the detail view, or view the data in a table view, all lines should always be there. If this isn’t what you’re experiencing (and you’re not clicking on a different section just after editing the text), we’d love to know more details to help investigate. Thanks! Nathan ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Olenick](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/michael_olenick/32/1068_2.png) [@Michael\_Olenick](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Michael_Olenick)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 8:48pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977/10 "2018-05-29T20:48:23Z")
Multiple lines don’t commit the values, at least in the use cases I’ve been using. I could deal w/ the line breaks being removed (though it’d be inconvenient and a reason I’m migrating from Excel). But it doesn’t commit: the data is lost. ---
**Author:** ![Naqushab\_Neyazee](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/naqushab_neyazee/32/1001_2.png) [@Naqushab\_Neyazee](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Naqushab_Neyazee)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977/11 "2018-05-29T20:49:43Z")
Yes, the data is lost. I am fine with text appearing in single line. But loss of data is very scary. I always have to recheck before and after switching. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Olenick](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/michael_olenick/32/1068_2.png) [@Michael\_Olenick](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Michael_Olenick)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977/12 "2018-05-29T20:58:23Z")
This what makes coda better than Excel for the type of information I’m working with. I’m used to dealing with big data – tens of millions of rows. I’ve spoken at international conferences and I’m a recognized expert. Enough of the self-congratulatory BS because it’s not helpful for analysis. This isn’t big data; it isn’t even medium data. It’s relatively small recordsets where we need to do minimal sorting and analysis. When I address conferences I remind them that this is, by far, the overwhelming majority use case. What I don’t say but I imply is that Excel sucks. Coda has the potential to be better. But not if we can’t type multi-line notes. ---
**Author:** ![nathan](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/nathan/32/5616_2.png) [@nathan](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/nathan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 12:28am UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977/13 "2018-05-31T00:28:42Z")
@Michael_Olenick and @Naqushab_Neyazee, we’re still not able to repro the issue with multi-line text not saving. Can you capture a recording of the issue, or more specifics on the steps to hit it? ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Olenick](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/user_avatar/connect.superhuman.com/michael_olenick/32/1068_2.png) [@Michael\_Olenick](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Michael_Olenick)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977/14 "2018-05-31T06:59:00Z")
The support person from Coda wrote to me that she was able to reproduce both bugs. The disappearing one happened with multi-line text in a text box, in form view, while the cursor, in grid view, was selecting a different cell. The pasting multi-line one put the data in other cells I didn’t notice (it pasted, but not into the cell it was supposed to paste into) - I didn’t notice that the data landed in a different row. ---
**Author:** ![Shi\_Hua\_Teo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Shi\_Hua\_Teo](https://connect.superhuman.com/u/Shi_Hua_Teo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 7:51am UTC](https://connect.superhuman.com/t/bug-text-boxes/977/15 "2019-04-01T07:51:49Z")
Hi, has this bug been fixed? I have experienced it myself a few times already and I was wondering if it is just me. I am only typing it in a table (which would appear in cards & tables elsewhere though) but it doesn’t save, at least twice so far… I thought it might be because I accidentally deleted it but there isn’t any record of it in the version history so it couldn’t be. ![Capture](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/coda1/original/2X/b/b0f41a566e5400b450c33e5062cf5bbe6da15a9c.png) it just disappears and because of this, I feel like I have to back up everytime… though I have forgotten about it on Saturday and it happened again and I lost the notes I have written down 😱😭😨