# Format text from db for viewing

**URL:** https://forum.adalo.com/t/format-text-from-db-for-viewing/1097
**Category:** Get Help
**Created:** [May 2, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/format-text-from-db-for-viewing/1097 "2020-05-02T16:28:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![rjp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/rjp/32/571_2.png) [@rjp](https://forum.adalo.com/u/rjp)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/format-text-from-db-for-viewing/1097/1 "2020-05-02T16:28:21Z")

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Is their a way to format text when displaying? I would like to format phone numbers as an example and I cant seem to find a way to format when I add to DB or when I display.

Thanks

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### Author: ![Ben](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/ben/32/9_2.png) [@Ben](https://forum.adalo.com/u/Ben)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2020, 3:07am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/format-text-from-db-for-viewing/1097/2 "2020-05-04T03:07:19Z")

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Adding support for more specific data formats such as phone numbers is on our roadmap here: [Additional Database Property Types | Voters | Adalo](https://ideas.adalo.com/feature-requests/p/additional-database-property-types)

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### Author: ![Mitch-Pragmaflow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.adalo.com/mitch-pragmaflow/32/23179_2.png) [@Mitch-Pragmaflow](https://forum.adalo.com/u/Mitch-Pragmaflow)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2021, 1:45am UTC](https://forum.adalo.com/t/format-text-from-db-for-viewing/1097/3 "2021-04-01T01:45:36Z")

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Hey, I’ve just figured out that you can achieve this by using NocoderHQ HTML Renderer and then adding html tags in the database entry directly.