diff --git a/frontend/src/components/panels/Document.vue b/frontend/src/components/panels/Document.vue
index 21cba17e..e8223868 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/panels/Document.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/components/panels/Document.vue
@@ -192,9 +192,9 @@
 					}
 				}
 				foreignObject {
+					width: 10000px;
+					height: 10000px;
 					overflow: visible;
-					width: 1px;
-					height: 1px;
 
 					div {
 						color: black;
@@ -245,6 +245,8 @@ import {
 	DisplayEditableTextbox,
 } from "@/dispatcher/js-messages";
 
+import { textInputCleanup } from "@/lifetime/input";
+
 import LayoutCol from "@/components/layout/LayoutCol.vue";
 import LayoutRow from "@/components/layout/LayoutRow.vue";
 import IconButton from "@/components/widgets/buttons/IconButton.vue";
@@ -379,19 +381,22 @@ export default defineComponent({
 			this.canvasCursor = updateMouseCursor.cursor;
 		});
 		this.editor.dispatcher.subscribeJsMessage(TriggerTextCommit, () => {
-			if (this.textInput) this.editor.instance.on_change_text(this.textInput.textContent || "");
+			if (this.textInput) this.editor.instance.on_change_text(textInputCleanup(this.textInput.innerText));
 		});
 
 		this.editor.dispatcher.subscribeJsMessage(DisplayEditableTextbox, (displayEditableTextbox) => {
 			this.textInput = document.createElement("DIV") as HTMLDivElement;
-			this.textInput.id = "editable-textbox";
-			this.textInput.textContent = displayEditableTextbox.text;
+
+			if (displayEditableTextbox.text === "") this.textInput.textContent = "";
+			else this.textInput.textContent = `${displayEditableTextbox.text}\n`;
+
 			this.textInput.contentEditable = "true";
 			this.textInput.style.width = displayEditableTextbox.line_width ? `${displayEditableTextbox.line_width}px` : "max-content";
 			this.textInput.style.height = "auto";
 			this.textInput.style.fontSize = `${displayEditableTextbox.font_size}px`;
+
 			this.textInput.oninput = (): void => {
-				if (this.textInput) this.editor.instance.update_bounds(this.textInput.textContent || "");
+				if (this.textInput) this.editor.instance.update_bounds(textInputCleanup(this.textInput.innerText));
 			};
 		});
 
diff --git a/frontend/src/lifetime/input.ts b/frontend/src/lifetime/input.ts
index 2d46dd39..d878ff19 100644
--- a/frontend/src/lifetime/input.ts
+++ b/frontend/src/lifetime/input.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export function createInputManager(editor: EditorState, container: HTMLElement,
 		{ target: window, eventName: "dblclick", action: (e: PointerEvent): void => onDoubleClick(e) },
 		{ target: window, eventName: "mousedown", action: (e: MouseEvent): void => onMouseDown(e) },
 		{ target: window, eventName: "wheel", action: (e: WheelEvent): void => onMouseScroll(e), options: { passive: false } },
-		{ target: window, eventName: "modifyinputfield", action: (e: CustomEvent): void => onmodifyinputfiled(e) },
+		{ target: window, eventName: "modifyinputfield", action: (e: CustomEvent): void => onModifyInputField(e) },
 	];
 
 	let viewportPointerInteractionOngoing = false;
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ export function createInputManager(editor: EditorState, container: HTMLElement,
 		}
 
 		if (textInput && !inTextInput) {
-			editor.instance.on_change_text(textInput.textContent || "");
+			editor.instance.on_change_text(textInputCleanup(textInput.innerText));
 		} else if (inCanvas && !inTextInput) viewportPointerInteractionOngoing = true;
 
 		if (viewportPointerInteractionOngoing) {
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ export function createInputManager(editor: EditorState, container: HTMLElement,
 		}
 	};
 
-	const onmodifyinputfiled = (e: CustomEvent): void => {
+	const onModifyInputField = (e: CustomEvent): void => {
 		textInput = e.detail;
 	};
 
@@ -232,6 +232,12 @@ export function makeModifiersBitfield(e: WheelEvent | PointerEvent | KeyboardEve
 	return Number(e.ctrlKey) | (Number(e.shiftKey) << 1) | (Number(e.altKey) << 2);
 }
 
+// Necessary because innerText puts an extra newline character at the end when the text is more than one line.
+export function textInputCleanup(text: string): string {
+	if (text[text.length - 1] === "\n") return text.slice(0, -1);
+	return text;
+}
+
 // This function is a naive, temporary solution to allow non-Latin keyboards to fall back on the physical QWERTY layout
 function getLatinKey(e: KeyboardEvent): string | null {
 	const key = e.key.toLowerCase();
diff --git a/graphene/src/layers/text/to_kurbo.rs b/graphene/src/layers/text/to_kurbo.rs
index 584e88b9..30b16126 100644
--- a/graphene/src/layers/text/to_kurbo.rs
+++ b/graphene/src/layers/text/to_kurbo.rs
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ pub fn to_kurbo(str: &str, buzz_face: rustybuzz::Face, font_size: f64, line_widt
 		path: BezPath::new(),
 		pos: Point::ZERO,
 		offset: Vec2::ZERO,
-		ascender: buzz_face.ascender() as f64,
+		ascender: (buzz_face.ascender() as f64 / buzz_face.height() as f64) * font_size / scale,
 		scale,
 	};