# Nothing showing in Content field

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-in-content-field/94066>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [July 21, 2017, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-in-content-field/94066 "2017-07-21T07:11:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![antman1p](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@antman1p](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/antman1p)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 7:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-in-content-field/94066/1 "2017-07-21T07:11:45Z")

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When I add the content field in the discover search page none of the text content shows. It looks like a bunch of white space with the black expansion arrows. All of my documents were parsed by tika. The json shows a bunch of \n newline characters. Is there a way to make the display look better in this case? Also, when I click the down arrow and look at the content area, there is a lot of white space before the text. I'm not sure why Tika parses everything like this, but I hope that I can figure out a way to better display the content field in Kibana.

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**Author:** ![tylersmalley](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tylersmalley/32/8833_2.png) [@tylersmalley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tylersmalley)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-in-content-field/94066/2 "2017-07-21T18:57:28Z")

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It sounds like the issue is in the data being indexed. I would recommend seeing if you can change the output from Tika. Another option would be to index into Logstash and further process the document there.

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**Author:** ![antman1p](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@antman1p](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/antman1p)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-in-content-field/94066/3 "2017-07-22T02:07:45Z")

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You're correct. Thank you! I had to do a lstrip("\n") on the parsed['content'] dictionary value before posting it to ES.

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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 19, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/nothing-showing-in-content-field/94066/4 "2017-08-19T02:07:46Z")

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