Press Shift-Enter in a properties text box to add a newline

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#1

As a developer, adding a newline to a property text box is annoyingly difficult.

Most multiline textboxes I interact with allow me to press shift-enter to add a newline instead of submitting the input. The properties panel should let me do that too.

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#2

I believe you should either indent the new lines in another text editor, such as notepad or notes then paste it in, elsewise you should look into using RichText Line Breaks.

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#3

Exactly what kind of properties are you trying to add a line break in? An object name, the text in a textlabel, what is it?

Either way, it’s impossible to add a line break in text boxes in the properties window, it’s simply not supported as far as I know. If you’re trying to add a line break to a textlabel/button with richtext, you put <br /> in its Text property.
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#4

like others have said, there’s not a whole lot of cases where you’d really need this.
however, being able to press shift+enter in a rich text supported instance (like text boxes) to automatically type “<br />” would be really nice

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#5

This is actually supported, albeit you need to manually set the property via the command bar (or a script). Alternatively, you can also copy and paste a multi-line string into the Text field, and it should accept it.

#6

I always copy it from a script and paste it into the property menu.