# Insert new line to email body on an alert **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Tags:** elastic-stack-alerting\ **Created:** [May 20, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/insert-new-line-to-email-body-on-an-alert/50577 "2016-05-20T15:42:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![atam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@atam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atam)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/insert-new-line-to-email-body-on-an-alert/50577/1 "2016-05-20T15:42:29Z")
Is there a way to insert a new line ("\n") or multiple lines in the email "body" element? ---
**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 9:29pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/insert-new-line-to-email-body-on-an-alert/50577/2 "2016-05-20T21:29:00Z")
Hey, can you share your watch and show what did not work, so we can help debugging? --Alex ---
**Author:** ![atam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f6c823/32.png) [@atam](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/atam)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2016, 9:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/insert-new-line-to-email-body-on-an-alert/50577/3 "2016-05-20T21:42:18Z")
I actually figured it out. I needed to use \n to get it to work. I was originally trying to escape the \ by doing \n. a simple \n will work. And for multiple lines, you can use \n\n\n (that will give you 3 end of line). Thanks for looking. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 1:45pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/insert-new-line-to-email-body-on-an-alert/50577/4 "2017-07-06T13:45:28Z")