Wrap around text in header field?

[Kate_Aldworth]

Hi,

Is there any way of wrapping the text in the header fields so that I don’t have to have such a wide column to fit the header in? In the example above I want to be able to see “Genre” rather than “Ge…” and “Proofer 1” instead of “Pro…”

Thanks in advance!

Kate

[ScottWorld]

EAL_LRES:

Is Airtable incompetent or lazy?

Lol, why do you assume it’s one or the other? These are not mutually exclusive. :joy:

[jennytea]

As a new user, this is a major block. I am used to looking at very compact tables without needing to hover or scroll to digest the information. 

[LauraC]

Please please please add text wrap options to all areas of the layout, especially in the headers. In fact, just copy Excel or Google Sheets! All of the standard formatting options on the main header bar of Google sheets need to be standard options in an airtable base as well. That includes text wrap. 

[Kredon]

+1 on wrapping header text

[Alice_Linell]

+1 for wrapping headers and fields

[lauren]

This is super SUPER annoying that this is not available. Especially for columns containing numbers, where you really don't want to take up a ton of unnecessary space, but are forced to because the column heads don't wrap. Anyway... you can install the Stylus Chrome Extension and then in the CSS box put in this code... and it will cause the text to be smaller and the text to wrap. It looks kind of dumb. But it works. 

-moz-document domain("airtable.com") {
.text-size-default { font-size:9px; }
.headerRow .cell.read .contentWrapper .nameAndDescription { right:0; top:3px; }
.nameAndDescription .truncate { max-width:100%; overflow:visible; overflow-wrap:break-word; text-overflow:default; white-space:normal; }
}

[Raoul]

I can't believe this hasn't been implemented when users have been asking for this minor tweak for years. Lauren even showed the developers how to do it in a browser. How much work could it be to tweak the app interface a bit?

[Samantha_Blake]

please please please add this feature!! it is so basic, but would really help us all out.

[tbradley22]

+1 I have about 20 fields (columns), each with 5 descriptors in the field name, and I need to be able to fill these out for lots of rows. Reading the header row at a glance is critical, otherwise I literally can't complete my job in a timely manner. Expanding the column width is a poor option because my data density goes way down and required a bunch of horizontal scrolling. I really need to be able to wrap the text in the header row so it can show multiple lines of text. See attached. Thanks

[finfid]

Not helpful, in the least.