Multiline String

Every so often ComfyUI makes you reach for a node that does almost nothing, and Multiline String is one of them. It gives you a big text box, keeps whatever you type as a string, and hands it to the next node. That's it. Twenty lines of code, one input, one output.

Why does that matter? Because ComfyUI's built-in text boxes live inside the nodes that consume them. When you want to edit a prompt without touching the KSampler, or feed the same paragraph to three different nodes, or keep a config block separate from the logic that reads it, a standalone text box is the right tool. This node is that box.

The one input

text - a multiline STRING with no default. Type a paragraph, paste a prompt, dump a JSON config; whatever's in the box comes out the output as a STRING. There are no other inputs, no settings, nothing to misconfigure. You connect it to anything that accepts a string - a CLIP text encode, a wildcard processor, a concat node, a file saver.

The honest take

This is the least exciting node in the Dados pack, and it should be. But "boring" is doing a lot of work here: it's the one text node you can always reach for when the built-in widgets get in the way. One genuinely handy pattern - keep your master prompt in a Multiline String at the top of the graph, run it through a wildcard processor or a concat node, and feed the result to the sampler. Now the thing you edit most often is a single obvious box instead of a widget buried in a node you have to dig open.

It doesn't strip anything, doesn't interpolate, doesn't parse {} wildcards on its own. If you want wildcard processing, run the output through the pack's Wildcards Processor. If you want to merge several strings, pipe it through a text concat node. This node's whole job is to be a clean source of text.

Install

It ships with Dados Nodes: ComfyUI Manager → search "Dados Nodes", or

cd ComfyUI/custom_nodes
git clone https://github.com/dadoirie/ComfyUI_Dados_Nodes.git
cd ComfyUI_Dados_Nodes
pip install -r requirements.txt

then restart. No models, no dependencies beyond the pack itself.

Common issues

There's basically one way this node can bite you, and it's the newline: the output preserves line breaks, and some string consumers treat a multi-line string differently from a single line. If you paste a prompt with hard line breaks and downstream text looks wrong, flatten it to one line in the box. Other than that, the only failure mode is the general Dados-pack one - if the node doesn't appear in your node list, update ComfyUI, since this pack targets the newer extension API. For everything else, it just holds your text and lets it go.