# Code indentation affecting the position of items in a table

**URL:** <https://community.silverfin.com/t/code-indentation-affecting-the-position-of-items-in-a-table/2186>\
**Category:** Reports\
**Tags:** tables, styling, indentation\
**Created:** [December 9, 2021, 9:12am UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/code-indentation-affecting-the-position-of-items-in-a-table/2186 "2021-12-09T09:12:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 9, 2021, 10:05am UTC](https://community.silverfin.com/t/code-indentation-affecting-the-position-of-items-in-a-table/2186/2 "2021-12-09T10:05:03Z")

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Hi @NicoleP ,

Thank you for sharing this.

We highly support that you are trying to structure your code this way to keep the code readable and maintainable. This is definitely a good practice 👍 .

However, in our HTML table functionality it’s currently not possible to add new lines in your code without creating a new line in your template. We have this on our list of improvements, but as a workaround you could try to add the `{% stripnewlines %}` tag around your table.

More information on the use of the tag can be found here: [Styling](https://developer.silverfin.com/docs/styling) and [CASE: make your code readable with stripnewlines and newline](https://community.silverfin.com/t/case-make-your-code-readable-with-stripnewlines-and-newline/366) (note that the `newline` tag is deprecated for HTML table purposes).

Hope this helps! If not, do not hesitate to reach out.

Kind regards,  
Robin

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