Do not use line breaks in ToolTip

Properties
AC0016 Info Design Code Fix Ignore Obsolete

Developers sometimes add a \ escape sequence to split a ToolTip across two lines. Business Central does not render formatting in ToolTips — the backslash appears literally in the client:

The backslash renders as literal text instead of a line break.

Do not use line breaks in the tooltip text. The tooltip cannot render formatting or line breaks.

Guidelines for tooltip text on Microsoft Learn

Remove the escape sequence and keep the text as a single continuous sentence.

Example

page 50100 "My Page"
{
    layout
    {
        area(Content)
        {
            field(MyField; Rec.MyField)
            {
                ToolTip = 'My first line of text\My second line of text'; // Do not use line breaks in ToolTip [AC0016]
            }
        }
    }
}

Remove the line break and combine the text into a single sentence:

page 50100 "My Page"
{
    layout
    {
        area(Content)
        {
            field(MyField; Rec.MyField)
            {
                ToolTip = 'My first line of text. My second line of text.';
            }
        }
    }
}

See also

  • AC0014 - ToolTip must end with a dot
  • AC0015 - ToolTip should start with ‘Specifies’
  • AC0017 - ToolTip should not exceed 200 characters