Odoo 12 Development Cookbook - Third Edition

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There are situations in which you might want to deviate from the strict layout groups prescribed. For example, if you want the name field of a record to be rendered as a heading, the field's label will interfere with the appearance. In this case, don't put your field into a group element, but instead into a plain HTML h1 element. Then, before the h1 element, put a label element with the for attribute set to your field name:

<label for="name" /> 
<h1><field name="name" /></h1> 

This will be rendered with the field's content as a big heading, but the field's name written in a smaller type, above the big heading. This is basically what the standard partner form does.

If you need a line break within a group, use the newline element. ...