Is there any way to display multiple lines of text for a single row using the modern table?

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Hello all,

I have a modern table with a large paragraph of data as seen below:

I was wondering if there is any way to have the text wrap and the size of the row adjust to display the entire paragraph. How I have it at the moment is not terribly useful for browsing over as it shows so little information...

Any help is very appreciated!

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Valantis 4,895 on at

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Hi @LW-03031325-0,

The modern list view doesn't support auto-expanding row heights to show a full paragraph out of the box, the row height is fixed by design.

Two options:

1. Switch to Gallery view (View options top right). It shows each item as a card and displays the full multiline text without truncation. No config needed.

2. If you want to stay in the table view, you can apply column formatting JSON to the Incident column. Go to the column header > Column settings > Format this column, paste this:

{
"$schema": "https://developer.microsoft.com/json-schemas/sp/v2/column-formatting.schema.json",
"elmType": "div",
"txtContent": "@currentField",
"style": {
"white-space": "normal",
"overflow": "visible"
}
}

Note: this only works if the column is set to Plain text, not Rich/Enhanced text. If it's rich text, you'll see HTML tags instead of formatted content.

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Valantis

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@LW-03031325-0,

Point 1

Table Control is still in preview as per Microsoft Best Practice you shouldn't deploy the preview controls for production environment.

Point 2

CanGrow - You can turn off this property and adjust accordingly.

There is No Wrap Property available in Modern Tables.

Possible Approach - Create a gallery control and adjust it accordingly

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Modern Table cannot display multi-line wrapped text with auto-height rows.

Switch to a Gallery for full-text display.

Replace the modern table with a Flexible Height Gallery

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CarlosFigueira Microsoft Employee on at

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Starting with version 3.26044, there is a new control (Data Grid) which has an option to allow the text to be wrapped - see below.

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LW-03031325-0 45 on at

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Thank you so much everyone for your help, I ended up going with a gallery instead but really appreciate all the options you gave me!

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