# Bug or misunderstanding? Text element on mobile only showing partial text

**URL:** https://community.weweb.io/t/bug-or-misunderstanding-text-element-on-mobile-only-showing-partial-text/1676
**Category:** Ask us anything
**Created:** [January 6, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/bug-or-misunderstanding-text-element-on-mobile-only-showing-partial-text/1676 "2023-01-06T14:02:49Z")
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### Author: ![clncsports](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@clncsports](https://community.weweb.io/u/clncsports)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/bug-or-misunderstanding-text-element-on-mobile-only-showing-partial-text/1676/1 "2023-01-06T14:02:49Z")

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I have a text element within a collection item that, if left untouched while in mobile view (editor and preview), is only showing 2 lines of text, of 9 total.

When I double-click the text in a collection item to edit it, it expands to show the full paragraph and stays that way (desired display) - text elements in other collection items are unaffected.

This extends into the preview mode as well. For text elements I have double-clicked on in the editor to get them to expand, they show correctly. For those that I haven’t, they only show the two lines.

The height of the div the text box is sitting in is set to auto. And when I double click to get the text to show, the div height properly expands with it.

I thought it might be an “overflow” setting thing, so tried setting that to “Visible” but it didn’t change anything.

Is this a bug or am I misunderstanding a feature of some sort here? Currently I’m having to go through each collection item and double-clicking the text element to get it to show the full text properly.

Before double-clicking:

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/2X/1/1e426728ce836bfd7cb8a408587aed215ec4d982.png)

After double-clicking:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/2X/a/a0a695537e6923f0e8c0dca906bece9a92ccd0d5.png)

Thanks!

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### Author: ![aurelie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/aurelie/32/13249_2.png) [@aurelie](https://community.weweb.io/u/aurelie)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2023, 10:24pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/bug-or-misunderstanding-text-element-on-mobile-only-showing-partial-text/1676/2 "2023-01-08T22:24:34Z")

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Do you have any height specified on this element or its parents?

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### Author: ![clncsports](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecccb3/32.png) [@clncsports](https://community.weweb.io/u/clncsports)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2023, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/bug-or-misunderstanding-text-element-on-mobile-only-showing-partial-text/1676/3 "2023-01-09T16:06:44Z")

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Turns out it was indeed user error 🙂

While the immediate parent div did not have a height specified, it was sitting within a container that had a height ratio (incorrectly) defined that was impacting my text.

Thanks for checking in, @aurelie

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### Author: ![aurelie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/aurelie/32/13249_2.png) [@aurelie](https://community.weweb.io/u/aurelie)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2023, 5:05pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/bug-or-misunderstanding-text-element-on-mobile-only-showing-partial-text/1676/4 "2023-01-09T17:05:49Z")

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Perfect, happy to know this is fixed for you 🙂