Dynamic Row Height

[Ron_F]

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.

[Jay_Karel]

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.

[chrowe]

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?

[Mariah_Gregory]

Agreed! Would like to have this feature.

[Nick_Ahrens]

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.

[Cheryl_Ng]

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.

[Frieder]

I’d like to see this as well.

[C_G]

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

[Tobias]

Really, really want this.

[Darin_Bellisari]

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

[Celeste_Bancos]

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.