# How to keep line breaks on excerpts?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-keep-line-breaks-on-excerpts/278755
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** topic-list-excerpts
**Created:** [January 18, 2021, 6:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-keep-line-breaks-on-excerpts/278755 "2021-01-18T18:47:08Z")
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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-keep-line-breaks-on-excerpts/278755/2 "2023-09-12T13:53:27Z")

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This can be done using this CSS:

```scss
.topic-list .topic-excerpt {
    white-space: pre-line;
}

```

This was originally described here: [How can I keep post views on lists - #5 by Don](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-keep-post-views-on-lists/254069/5)

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edit:  
ℹ since being able to keep line breaks in excerpts was asked multiple times, I’ve added this as a tip/trick on the [official topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-excerpts/151520).

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