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title: "Multi Line Textbox"
description: "When you add a Multi Line Textbox field, it displays a text area on the entry page to enter multi-line arbitrary text as content. Learn how with Contentstack."
url: "https://www.contentstack.com/docs/headless-cms/multi-line-textbox"
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doc_type: "guide"
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  - developers
  - admins
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last_updated: "2026-08-11"
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# Multi Line Textbox

The **Multi Line Textbox** field enables users to enter multi-line arbitrary text as content.

**Note**: This field does not provide any formatting options.

When you [add this field in content type](/docs/developer-hub/custom-field-location), it displays a text area on the [entry](/docs/headless-cms/about-entries) page to enter a large chunk of data, for example, an address.

This field possesses certain [properties](/docs/headless-cms/about-field-properties) that you can change at any time as per your needs. The properties that can be modified are “[Display Name](/docs/headless-cms/display-name),” “[Unique ID](/docs/headless-cms/unique-id),” “[Placeholder Value](/docs/headless-cms/placeholder-value),” “[Instruction Value](/docs/headless-cms/instruction-value),” “[Help Text](/docs/headless-cms/help-text),” “[Number of Characters](/docs/headless-cms/number-of-characters),” “[Validation (Regex)](/docs/headless-cms/validation-regex),” “[Validation Error Message](/docs/headless-cms/validation-error-message),” “[Default Value](/docs/headless-cms/default-value),” “[Mandatory](/docs/headless-cms/mandatory),” “[Multiple](/docs/headless-cms/multiple),” and “[Non-localizable](/docs/headless-cms/non-localizable).”

**Additional Resource:** You can read more about [Field Visibility Rules](/docs/headless-cms/about-field-visibility-rules) in our documentation where we have covered them extensively

After adding this field in content type, you will see it on your entry page.

![Multi\_Line\_Textbox\_1.png](https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/blt2d43f51baca745a8/blt1c4b0ee73cb5e1b7/667012c65cb7a3fb70bfc6fa/Multi_Line_Textbox_1.png)

**Additional Resource:** You can use [Validation (Regex)](/docs/headless-cms/validation-regex) with the title field. To know more, read our documentation.