# \\n as newline in Kibana

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/n-as-newline-in-kibana/246813>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [August 28, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/n-as-newline-in-kibana/246813 "2020-08-28T19:16:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![AditiKhalatkar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@AditiKhalatkar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AditiKhalatkar)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 7:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/n-as-newline-in-kibana/246813/1 "2020-08-28T19:16:00Z")

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I have a value for a field in Elasticsearch as "a \n b", need to display this in Kibana as  
"a  
b"

It is storing in Elasticsearch as "a \n b", any way I can display multiline within a particular field, trying to fetch all the data inside the datatable.

Kindly guide.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![Nathan\_Reese](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nathan_reese/32/84829_2.png) [@Nathan\_Reese](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nathan_Reese)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/n-as-newline-in-kibana/246813/2 "2020-08-28T19:53:56Z")

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Would you mind creating a feature request at [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?template=Feature\_request.md](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/new?template=Feature_request.md)

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**Author:** ![AditiKhalatkar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@AditiKhalatkar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/AditiKhalatkar)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2020, 8:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/n-as-newline-in-kibana/246813/3 "2020-08-29T20:05:55Z")

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Sure. Done. [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/76242](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/76242)

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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:** [September 26, 2020, 8:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/n-as-newline-in-kibana/246813/4 "2020-09-26T20:05:56Z")

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