It could be a new column type in itself, or just a formatting option of the existing Text column. But the idea would be to have multiline text box with as many options in a toolbar (like the one you have on top a created Section). This is particularly nice for when you expand the row and get the for…

+1 I feel this might also solve a couple of minor irritations with writing long form content within cells at the moment, including: Lack of easy accessibility to toolbar from modals (meaning you’re reliant on keyboard shortcuts) Forced use of Ctrl+Enter/Shift+Enter instead of being able to just cr…

I just have wanted it since two days ago, when I tried to make some notes in Coda. Now the existing text column is, as you say, not good for writing long words. Always need Ctrl+Ender to make new lines. But compatiblity with the existing text column might be a problem?

+1 on holding the UI still when selecting a cell (i.e., reducing UI “jumpiness”). :point_down: [image] Murray_Adcock: (Possibly) being able to define input point from outside of a cell, rather than being scrolled to the top when you select a long form text entry and having to move back down to …

I also want a more rich text based or long text based column type - the ctrl + enter is super annoying I like to use coda to write books and to organize my notes - it would be so so much better if it could handle text better inside tables I would like a bigger box for this column type inside a for…

@Michael_Pilgrim F.Y.I. [image] Multiline text boxes in layouts Suggestion Box Dear @Michael_Pilgrim , Just to make you aware that Coda has this in place: Just click in the text column and at the right bottom corner you will be able to expand to a full text block, where w…

For what it’s worth, I use ctrl+shift+e all the time, and this post as well as this one I think indicate a need for better discoverability of this nifty little feature. Alternatively, it would be nice (as others have said) to just have enter (not ctrl+enter) give a new line when inside a cell. Esp…

At the same time, I would love to just have enter switch to the next field when on mobile mode. It’s very annoying when editing a row on mobile to press enter, have to delete the newline, and manually click on the second cell to update.

Another vote for Rich Text / Multi line control. @Ryan_Martens ctrl+shift+e (command+shift+e on a mac) is super helpfully but hard to discover. Personally I’m fine with the table view having a cell with the current options but when in a form view its really odd that you can have a multi row control…

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