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How to Skip a Line in Discord

How to Skip a Line in Discord

Pressing Enter in Discord’s message box sends the message immediately, which makes multi-line messages look impossible. The trick is Shift+Enter: it inserts a line break and leaves the message unsent until you finally press Enter.

✅ Tested on
  • SystemWindows
  • AppDiscord
  • Also works onDiscord desktop app (the same Shift+Enter shortcut).
  • Last verifiedNovember 1, 2026

Every screenshot below is taken from the actual recording on this device — no stock images.

Steps

Open Discord in your browser

In your browser, go to discord.com and click Open Discord in your browser — or just open the Discord app you already have installed.

Open Discord in your browser

Open a conversation

Open the conversation where you want to write — here, the DelftStack group DM.

Open a conversation

Type the first line

Click the message box and type the first line of your message.

Type the first line

Press Shift+Enter for a new line

Instead of Enter, press Shift+Enter. The cursor drops to a new line and nothing is sent.

Press Shift+Enter for a new line

Press Enter to send the whole message

Type the remaining lines with Shift+Enter between them, then press Enter once to send. The whole text lands as a single multi-line message.

Press Enter to send the whole message

Good to know

  1. Enter on its own always sends the message, so use Shift+Enter for every line break except the last one.
  2. The shortcut works in channels, group DMs, and threads, in both the web app and the desktop app.
  3. You can stack as many Shift+Enter line breaks as you like before sending.
  4. The image marked SPOILER in the demo channel is blurred by Discord itself, not by us.

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