diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6e58f10..01c554d 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio-stream",
  "tokio-util",
  "unescape",
+ "unindent",
  "wait-timeout",
  "x11rb",
  "yuck",
@@ -2254,6 +2255,12 @@ version = "0.2.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8ccb82d61f80a663efe1f787a51b16b5a51e3314d6ac365b08639f52387b33f3"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unindent"
+version = "0.1.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f14ee04d9415b52b3aeab06258a3f07093182b88ba0f9b8d203f211a7a7d41c7"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "utf8-ranges"
 version = "1.0.4"
diff --git a/crates/eww/Cargo.toml b/crates/eww/Cargo.toml
index db02853..e26d681 100644
--- a/crates/eww/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/eww/Cargo.toml
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ nix = "0.20"
 smart-default = "0.6"
 simple-signal = "1.1"
 unescape = "0.1"
+unindent = "0.1"
 
 tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["full"] }
 tokio-stream = "0.1"
diff --git a/crates/eww/src/widgets/widget_definitions.rs b/crates/eww/src/widgets/widget_definitions.rs
index 3be328f..0f255ad 100644
--- a/crates/eww/src/widgets/widget_definitions.rs
+++ b/crates/eww/src/widgets/widget_definitions.rs
@@ -543,6 +543,7 @@ fn build_gtk_label(bargs: &mut BuilderArgs) -> Result<gtk::Label> {
         prop(text: as_string, limit_width: as_i32 = i32::MAX) {
             let text = text.chars().take(limit_width as usize).collect::<String>();
             let text = unescape::unescape(&text).context(format!("Failed to unescape label text {}", &text))?;
+            let text = unindent::unindent(&text);
             gtk_widget.set_text(&text);
         },
         // @prop markup - Pango markup to display