# Multiline Textinput return key as a newline within the TextInput **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\ **Tags:** textinput\ **Created:** [February 13, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/multiline-textinput-return-key-as-a-newline-within-the-textinput/68691 "2019-02-13T08:01:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hicham\_Chehab](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/hicham_chehab/32/30224_2.png) [@Hicham\_Chehab](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Hicham_Chehab)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 8:01am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/multiline-textinput-return-key-as-a-newline-within-the-textinput/68691/1 "2019-02-13T08:01:22Z")
Hi, How can you make return key behave like carriage return within a multiline textinput. Currently the textinout loses focus and the user has to click on the textinput to enter text on the second line Thanks ---
**Author:** ![danyklein](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c37758/32.png) [@danyklein](https://community.thunkable.com/u/danyklein)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 9:19pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/multiline-textinput-return-key-as-a-newline-within-the-textinput/68691/2 "2019-02-13T21:19:42Z")
It isn’t possible for the moment to do that… ---
**Author:** ![Hicham\_Chehab](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/hicham_chehab/32/30224_2.png) [@Hicham\_Chehab](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Hicham_Chehab)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2019, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/multiline-textinput-return-key-as-a-newline-within-the-textinput/68691/3 "2019-11-11T12:21:31Z")
Any update on this? ---
**Author:** ![haaldor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@haaldor](https://community.thunkable.com/u/haaldor)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/multiline-textinput-return-key-as-a-newline-within-the-textinput/68691/4 "2020-03-04T19:38:43Z")
Still waiting for any idea how to fix this. It’s quite a big problem, as multiline is effectively useless if keyboard hides after each new line… ---
**Author:** ![henrikhngj5](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/henrikhngj5/32/67710_2.png) [@henrikhngj5](https://community.thunkable.com/u/henrikhngj5)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 12:25pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/multiline-textinput-return-key-as-a-newline-within-the-textinput/68691/5 "2020-04-28T12:25:08Z")
Agree on this, we need this option at once… Can we get a comment? ---
**Author:** ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/multiline-textinput-return-key-as-a-newline-within-the-textinput/68691/6 "2020-04-28T12:31:31Z")
I second this would be a nice feature. As it does here in the forum, it would be nice for return to function as a line break and not “done” or at least to have that as an option. ---
**Author:** ![Hicham\_Chehab](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/hicham_chehab/32/30224_2.png) [@Hicham\_Chehab](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Hicham_Chehab)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/multiline-textinput-return-key-as-a-newline-within-the-textinput/68691/7 "2020-04-28T13:24:01Z")
Yes please need this asap. TIA ---
**Author:** ![Kps\_Kpshah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/977dab/32.png) [@Kps\_Kpshah](https://community.thunkable.com/u/Kps_Kpshah)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2020, 9:53am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/multiline-textinput-return-key-as-a-newline-within-the-textinput/68691/8 "2020-11-16T09:53:53Z")
Hi, Not sure if it would help,but it worked for me, 😅 the codes for non printable ASCII codes for non printable characters are as follows: \t for tab \r for carriage return \n for line feed \a for bell \e for escape \f for form feed \v for vertical tab \c for control character-\>refer below \uFFFF or \xFFFF for inserting Unicode characters where FFFF represents its Unicode value \0 for null Use of Control character is as follows: \c + any letter from A-Z in Upper Case and \c where c is in lower case. but practically only a few of them worked for me 😅 to see the results I used hercules(a serial viewer software) wtih a usb-ttl connected to a Bluetooth reciever hc-05 here are the attached files if you are interested: [Help\_with\_label.aia](https://community.thunkable.com/uploads/short-url/sn03KIaPl5dFkOUx3RdWWCgO1cK.aia) (2.7 KB) ![Help_with_label](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/f/e/fe617b85209c564c4ce698d531e799c8cf8e6775.png) after setting this → right click -\>Special Characters-\>text mode ![Help_with_label_1](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/d/7/d7982432e092b60c98d2e4a37612b8f48d53d913.png) ![WhatsApp Image 2020-11-16 at 15.26.58](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/2/1/21d7b2f17f9e92285f45b05ce95b5e4a125af179.jpeg) any further changes to this code would be appreciated. Thank You. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 11:29am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/multiline-textinput-return-key-as-a-newline-within-the-textinput/68691/9 "2024-11-08T11:29:36Z")