# Kibana multiple line scripts json input **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [September 11, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-multiple-line-scripts-json-input/248374 "2020-09-11T18:54:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sambart19](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@sambart19](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sambart19)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-multiple-line-scripts-json-input/248374/1 "2020-09-11T18:54:31Z")
This is a duplicate of the question [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multi-line-scripts-in-kibanas-json-input/232198) from a different user that never got an answer. I would like to be able to use multiple lines in the json input for a script but the triple quote that is listed in documentation doesn't seem to work. There is more information in the post linked above, but that is the general question. ---
**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 10:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-multiple-line-scripts-json-input/248374/2 "2020-09-14T10:27:59Z")
Hello, You can escape double quotes with `\` if you have other quotes, but for multiline I don't think there i a way currently and I am thinking this is a bug. Can you point me to the docs where you found the triple quotes for the kibana input so that can be fixed until the bug is fixed? ---
**Author:** ![sambart19](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@sambart19](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sambart19)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2020, 4:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-multiple-line-scripts-json-input/248374/3 "2020-09-14T16:18:09Z")
Yeah escaping quotes isn't an issue, its just really gross to have to write a script in one line. Thanks for looking at this. [Here](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/supported-aggregations.html#visualize-metric-aggregations) is the kibana documentation mentioning of using the JSON input for scripting at the end of this linked passage. This then links to elasticsearch documentation about scripting in general. After a couple more links you can find an example of multiline painless scripting [here.](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/painless/7.9/painless-walkthrough.html#_accessing_doc_values_from_painless) ---
**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2020, 1:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-multiple-line-scripts-json-input/248374/4 "2020-09-15T13:09:07Z")
I can imagine. This looks like a bug to me. Could you open one in the Kibana repo here? [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues) ---
**Author:** ![geo909](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/geo909/32/65605_2.png) [@geo909](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/geo909)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2020, 7:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-multiple-line-scripts-json-input/248374/5 "2020-10-08T07:21:38Z")
The user who never got an answer thanks you for ressurecting this 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2020, 7:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-multiple-line-scripts-json-input/248374/6 "2020-11-05T07:22:03Z")
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