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Dynamic Row Height

  • March 13, 2019
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Hi,

As far as I can tell, currently you can set row heights to Short/Medium/Tall/Extra Tall. This height setting is applied to every row in the base.

It’d be nice if there could be a “dynamic height” option, where each individual row is set to a height depending on its longest content. So a row that has a cell which requires 5 lines to display will have a height of 5 lines, while a row whose longest cell is only 1 word will be still be the “Short” height.

This would be really useful for bases where we have text content that varies greatly in length (for example, user responses to an open-ended survey question). Right now, I have to set the height to “Extra Tall” to fit in most answers, but this wastes a lot of space because there are also lots of short answers which end up taking up way more space than they need.

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    • Jay_Karel
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    • October 23, 2019

    Agreed! This would make a big impact on readability, especially when presenting to a group. It breaks up the flow when you have to expand just to see the rest of the text.

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    • chrowe
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    • April 21, 2020

    It would be great to understand from Airtable why this is not a feature already. Is it just not being prioritized or is there some design decision for not doing it?

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    Agreed! Would like to have this feature.

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    • Nick_Ahrens
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    • April 22, 2020

    A vote here as well. We track critical information in Airtable and without all text visible or some kind of truncation iconography, it’s easy to miss data.

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    • Cheryl_Ng
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    • May 3, 2020

    Yes, agreed! I think there’s the option to custom expand the columns, but not the rows? Lots of people are asking for it, rather than having set row expansion heights by Airtable, we should be able to customize it and drag it the length.

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    • Frieder
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    • May 12, 2020

    I’d like to see this as well.

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    • C_G
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    • June 15, 2020

    +1 from me as well. Sorely missed right now.

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    • Tobias11
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    • September 2, 2020

    Really, really want this.

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    +1 definitely - there’s some tables we still keep in Excel solely for this reason, as well as for Header text wrapping

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    I agree! This would also be helpful for link fields which sometimes link to just one other record but other times link to many.

    Right now if I want to be able to see all the linked records, I have to make the row height extra high, but that leaves a bunch of empty space in all the rows that have only one other record linked.

    If I keep the row-height short, there’s no way to see all the linked records at a glance. I can’t even see how many there are without clicking the cell.

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    • October 22, 2020

    Totally agree that this is a major missing feature.

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    • Taylor_Marlow
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    • November 16, 2020

    Yes definitely agree with this - adjustable height of rows to display more text would be a key feature for ability to use it on more projects.

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    • Eric_Shank1
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    • December 11, 2020

    absolutely essential… I am now wasting time looking for a 3rd party solution, which could even lead me away from using Airtable…

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    yes this is critical for my workflow too.
    does anybody know a different online table solution where this dynamic row height is possible?

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    • ScottWorld
    • Genius
    • March 15, 2021

    yes this is critical for my workflow too.
    does anybody know a different online table solution where this dynamic row height is possible?


    Be sure to email support@airtable.com. Even though they famously don’t listen to customer requests, you never know what the future will hold. It’s good to at least bother them about it. Maybe someday they will have a management overhaul who will decide to listen to customer requests at that time.

    In the meantime, MiniExtensions is the service that is dedicated & committed to fixing all the hundreds of flaws in Airtable, and they are fully focused on filling in all the glaring holes in Airtable.

    Check out their grid view below, and if they don’t have what you need, they are extremely responsive to user feedback (unlike Airtable, which ignores user feedback):

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    • Raymond_Arnold
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    • September 16, 2021

    Be sure to email support@airtable.com. Even though they famously don’t listen to customer requests, you never know what the future will hold. It’s good to at least bother them about it. Maybe someday they will have a management overhaul who will decide to listen to customer requests at that time.

    In the meantime, MiniExtensions is the service that is dedicated & committed to fixing all the hundreds of flaws in Airtable, and they are fully focused on filling in all the glaring holes in Airtable.

    Check out their grid view below, and if they don’t have what you need, they are extremely responsive to user feedback (unlike Airtable, which ignores user feedback):


    Also feels essential for me.

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    • David_Browne
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    • May 11, 2022

    Would like to be able to adjust the row height more so that I can see the full record. Extra Tall isn’t tall enough.

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    • MikeNew
    • Participating Frequently
    • April 26, 2023

    Dynamic row heights with text wrapping would be greatly beneficial to data visualization for my projects

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    • jeremycastro
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    • September 30, 2023

    Please!!  I'd love this

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    +1 for this. Would be a game changer for sharing all of our information in Airtable.

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    • ggritmon
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    • November 5, 2024

    Adding my vote for dynamic row height. I'd like to transition from Google Sheets to Airtable for my relational data project management needs, but if I can't view all the details at a glance, that's a non-starter. PLEASE ADD dynamic row height!

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    • Elliott_Powell
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    • December 29, 2024

    Would also really love this!!

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