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How to Create a Large Textbox in Business Central Using Control Add-ins

 If you’ve ever customized a page in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central , chances are you’ve used the MultiLine = true property to enable multiline input for a text field. While this setting technically allows multiple lines of input, it comes with a limitation: you’ll only see about three lines before a scrollbar appears . This isn’t ideal for users who need to enter or read larger blocks of text. Fortunately, there’s a way to significantly improve this experience. By using a Microsoft-provided Control Add-in , we can embed a fully customizable HTML textarea element directly into a Business Central page. This gives us full control over its size, styling, and behavior—allowing a much more user-friendly and visually accessible text input area. In this blog, I’ll show you how to implement this using a real-world example: adding a custom work description field to the Service Item Card page. Instead of being limited to a few lines, our new implementation comfortably displays ...