# Format Datatable Column text

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/format-datatable-column-text/278596>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 13, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/format-datatable-column-text/278596 "2021-07-13T21:22:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![matheuspavanetti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@matheuspavanetti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matheuspavanetti)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/format-datatable-column-text/278596/1 "2021-07-13T21:22:12Z")

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Hi Team,

Currently, I'm building a dashboard which the data source field is a big text,  
When I open the field in the Discover session, it shows me the way I expect, formatted and aligned,  
But when I query this field from a kibana datatable column, the text comes truncated and messed up.

This is the way I would need in my datatable column:

 ![discoverTable](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/2/8/28aefb07020808c8abd60cdfbd7931594a205cd0.png)  
Reference field studioLogs  
 ![truncated text](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/c/b/cb3b3be7b26b9a86f7fdbe16d5996941b08aa81c.png)  
 ![inspecting](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/d/b/dbce8bc93955cf827fb55f6c4a7163a9c0607a31.png)  
This is when I inspect,  
 ![olddatatable](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/4/1/413e23fda11449a47309b9bfe1200095585e2529.png)  
This is the old legacy datatable template, which is better, but the data isn't still mirroring the discover field  
when I export it to csv, formatted it looks nice too

Do you guys have any idea how could I accomplish that ?

Thank you so much !!!!

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**Author:** ![matheuspavanetti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ad7895/32.png) [@matheuspavanetti](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/matheuspavanetti)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2021, 2:00pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/format-datatable-column-text/278596/2 "2021-07-19T14:00:51Z")

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@kibana

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/format-datatable-column-text/278596/3 "2021-08-16T14:01:11Z")

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