# Formatting when customizing text

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-when-customizing-text/267046>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [June 2, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-when-customizing-text/267046 "2023-06-02T18:30:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Don](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/don/32/228726_2.png) [@Don](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Don)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/formatting-when-customizing-text/267046/9 "2023-06-03T18:23:28Z")

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I see. I thought you mean the login required page. Yeah it won’t work with the Login and signup modal.

However you can use here what Jay suggested

> [@pfaffman](#):
>
> If you want line breaks you’ll need to do that with CSS

Like this:

 ![Screenshot 2023-06-03 at 20.17.48](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/c/a/bca28ce4b62df2ac4726d9ed1b59287b607dd62c.png)

Add this to a theme component CSS section.

```scss
p.login-subheader {
  white-space: pre-line;
}

```

Result:

 ![Screenshot 2023-06-03 at 20.20.03](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/9/1/3/9135ec0832ac379eb57e7ae841c20935a2497958.png)

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