TSVB Annotations - New Line Character

[Grunticus03]

Describe the feature:
The ability to have annotation flyout information formatted into multiple lines. Currently, when a user enters multiple fields in the row template field, all the data is displayed as a single line string. If the data exceeds a certain length, the text wraps to a new line automatically. For example:

This row template configuration:

Creates this flyout information on the annotation:

Describe a specific use case for the feature:

What I propose is having a special character/sequence of characters that allows the user to indicate when a new line should start.

Something like this

Would produce this result

(I'm not advocating for HTML formatting, just using a well known HTML tag to illustrate my point.)

[elasticmachine]

Pinging @elastic/kibana-app (Team:KibanaApp)

[AndrewMcQuerry]

agreed.. just now facing this same limitation. Tried searching docs/google/discuss and couldn't find any reference to how to indicate a new line until I found this issue.

[mdaliyan]

Even supporting the \n could be helpful, though I like the idea of being able to use HTML tags like strong and hr

[ghudgins]

@markov00 should I file an issue about supporting new line characters in elastic-charts specifically? right now this issue is tagged in the meta for tooltips

[markov00]

@markov00 should I file an issue about supporting new line characters in elastic-charts specifically? right now this issue is tagged in the meta for tooltips

yes please, it will be great

[stratoula]

You can add fields in your annotation tooltip in Lens that they appear on a new line.

We don't plan to add this in TSVB for now but we are very welcome in feature requests in Lens annotations!