diff --git a/lib/core/card-view/components/card-view-textitem/card-view-textitem.component.ts b/lib/core/card-view/components/card-view-textitem/card-view-textitem.component.ts
index 2b3108cec2..0ae8acd7ea 100644
--- a/lib/core/card-view/components/card-view-textitem/card-view-textitem.component.ts
+++ b/lib/core/card-view/components/card-view-textitem/card-view-textitem.component.ts
@@ -107,11 +107,11 @@ export class CardViewTextItemComponent implements OnChanges {
     }
 
     prepareValueForUpload(property: CardViewTextItemModel, value: string): string | string [] {
-        const listOfValues = value;
         if (property.multivalued) {
-            return listOfValues.split(this.valueSeparator);
+            const listOfValues = value.split(this.valueSeparator.trim()).map((item) => item.trim());
+            return listOfValues;
         }
-        return listOfValues;
+        return value;
     }
 
     onTextAreaInputChange() {
diff --git a/lib/core/pipes/multi-value.pipe.ts b/lib/core/pipes/multi-value.pipe.ts
index a75a2959f0..608b3b56d5 100644
--- a/lib/core/pipes/multi-value.pipe.ts
+++ b/lib/core/pipes/multi-value.pipe.ts
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ export class MultiValuePipe implements PipeTransform {
     transform(values: string | string [], valueSeparator: string = MultiValuePipe.DEFAULT_SEPARATOR): string {
 
         if (values && values instanceof Array) {
-            values.map((value) => value.trim());
-            return values.join(valueSeparator);
+            const valueList = values.map((value) => value.trim());
+            return valueList.join(valueSeparator);
         }
 
         return <string> values;