Hit Shift-Enter in a SharePoint multiline text-field to insert a new line instead of two

At my customer, we created a solution where users can fill in some comments in a SharePoint multiline text-field.

Unfortunately, every time they entered some lines, they appeared a little bit too far from each other.

Looking at the code, SharePoint adds a “p” or double “div”’s around the line.

After some testing, the simple solution became quite obvious: use the Shift-Enter combo (just like in Microsoft Word) to keep the lines close to each other.

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About: Marijn

Marijn Somers (MVP) has over 14 years experience in the SharePoint world, starting out with SP2007. Over the years the focus has grown to Office 365, with a focus on collaboration and document management. He is a business consultant at Balestra and Principal Content Provider for "Mijn 365 Coach" that offers dutch employee video training. His main work tracks are around user adoption, training and coaching and governance. He is also not afraid to dig deeper in the technicalities with PowerShell, adaptive cards or custom formatting in lists and libraries. You can listen to him on the biweekly "Office 365 Distilled" podcast.