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Robert_Andrews
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

I’m going to presume the answer is “no”, but is there really no way to wrap the text (esp title text) of a card when presented in kanban or gallery view?

Has anyone found the CSS rules that can be changed in Developer Tools, perhaps?

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Robert_Andrews
6 - Interface Innovator
6 - Interface Innovator

The relevant CSS class is .truncate, which is applied to card title links…

.truncate {
    max-width: 100%;
    overflow: hidden;
    overflow-x: hidden;
    overflow-y: hidden;
    text-overflow: ellipsis;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

If white-space were disabled or set to normal, truncation would be disabled and card titles would wrap.

Although they would appear a little untidily due to lack of vertical padding.

Harald
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Hi Airtable team, I hope you are aware that the Kanban view is basically unusable without better handling of the card title. I think there is a 23 character cut off. That's is not a good solution. Please look at any other tool on the market that uses cards. Wrap the text, shrink the font and add more character count, etc. Anything. PLEASE!

WouterJ
4 - Data Explorer
4 - Data Explorer

Agreed. I also currently have the impression the Kanban board only "looks" like a kanban board, but isn't actually functional as one in any kind of task/project management. Mainly due to the 23 character cutoff. It gives the impression that it's designed more as a tool to categorize items or people with short-ish names, for which I guess this UX would work. The short titles really break the functionality, causing me to use table view, Notion, or Trello for task tracking.

DavidW
Airtable Employee
Airtable Employee

Hey everyone, we've now rolled out the ability to wrap these text values in Kanban Interfaces and views. See the images below to get started. I don't have an update on Gallery support at this time, but please do keep letting us know how important these features are to your workflows.

Enabling text wrapping in Kanban in an interface:

Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.35.18 AM.png

Enabling text wrapping in a Kanban View:

Screenshot 2023-12-01 at 11.34.22 AM.png