# ID values get a ton of spaces between ID and its value

**URL:** <https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/id-values-get-a-ton-of-spaces-between-id-and-its-value/3118>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [June 20, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/id-values-get-a-ton-of-spaces-between-id-and-its-value/3118 "2023-06-20T00:09:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![frank](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/frank/32/1338_2.png) [@frank](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/frank)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/id-values-get-a-ton-of-spaces-between-id-and-its-value/3118/1 "2023-06-20T00:09:40Z")

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Does anyone know how to fix that? It’s annoying me quite a bit.

Instead of `:ID: value` I get `:ID:.................value` (periods represent spaces). All `org-id` related values look normal, nothing indicating where the spaces come from.

Doom 3  
Org-Roam 2

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**Author:** ![nobiot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/nobiot/32/159_2.png) [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 9:55am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/id-values-get-a-ton-of-spaces-between-id-and-its-value/3118/2 "2023-06-20T09:55:40Z")

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It’s probably customizing of `org-property-format`. The default should be `%-10s %s` (I don’t know what Doom does with it). I think you can change it to `%-1s %s` and see if it works as you wish.

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**Author:** ![frank](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/frank/32/1338_2.png) [@frank](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/frank)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2023, 11:42pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/id-values-get-a-ton-of-spaces-between-id-and-its-value/3118/3 "2023-06-20T23:42:07Z")

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That fixed it. Thank you. Do you happen to know why 10 spaces are the default? Looks kinda weird.

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**Author:** ![nobiot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/nobiot/32/159_2.png) [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/id-values-get-a-ton-of-spaces-between-id-and-its-value/3118/4 "2023-06-21T20:31:04Z")

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> [@frank](#):
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> Do you happen to know why 10 spaces are the default? Looks kinda weird.

I don’t know. I guess it could have been any number and the author just picked one. It’s probably 10 spaces for as long as it is there.