How To Add Vertical Divider In Notion

Do you want to add a vertical divider to your Notion page? Unfortunately, there’s no in-built function to add a vertical divider. Don’t worry, you’ve come to the right place, there is a workaround!

Let’s work through an example to create a page like the one below.

Vertical divider

How To Add Vertical Divider In Notion

This example assumes you have your columns set up already.

Vertical divider example
  • Anywhere on the page, add a Quote block using /quote
Quote block
  • Drag the Quote block in between your two columns
  • In the “Empty Quote”, hold SHIFT and press ENTER. Stop pressing ENTER when the divider is long enough
Shift Enter Bar
  • Click on the border of the Quote block and squeeze the borders to create a thin column
  • You’ve successfully created a vertical divider bar!
Vertical divider

Video Guide

Adjust The Design Of The Vertical Divider

You can’t change the design of the bar to include dashes etc. However, you can adjust the color of the bar.

  • Right-click on the Quote block
  • Go into the Color menu
  • Select a color
Adjust design

How Do You Divide A Page Vertically In Notion

To add columns to your page, you can use the column blocks. You can call these up by using /2c or /3c. See the Notion Foundation Page Layouts for more information.

How To Add Horizontal Divider

Adding a horizontal divider in Notion is much easier. There’s actually an in-built function for it!

You can add one by inserting a “divider” block (type /div).

Divider block

You can also add one by typing the shortcut “—” (three dashes) on a page.

Horizontol divider

Thanks for reading and I hope you found this helpful!

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