Allow rich text formatting and markdown syntax in help texts

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Lennie

• November 13, 2017 16:04

Most Podio users that uses webform got some help texts in their field that will help their user to write the correct answer. It'll be very helpful if we can customize how our help text will look like. For example, a clickable link and a new line, bold or italic etc.

It'll be more appealing for users to see something like:

To see sample, click here: www.samplewebsite.com (clickable)
Instructions:
1.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
2.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.
3.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

Instead of:

To see sample, click here: www.samplewebsite.com (not clickable) Instructions: 1.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. 2.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. 3.  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.

Thank you :)

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  Kelley Markoff

  • November 16, 2017 20:25

  Hi Lnnie,

  Here are some samples of Markdown in Podio, created by Andreas. Is this what you're looking for? http://www.globiflow.com/blog/markdown-rich-text-in-podio.php

  //Kelley - Podio

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  Lennie

  • November 17, 2017 05:28

  Hello Kelley,

  Unfortunately, no, I'm aware of those markdowns in Podio if using text fields, comments etc. However, those syntax doesn't work in help texts, when you put something in it, it will read it as it is.

  For example, if you put a sharp symbol (#) at the beginning of a comment, that comment will be a header, but if I put that sharp on my help text, it will appear as sharp (#) alone without converting it into a header.

  Hope I make sense.

  Thank you

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  Manuel Hüttel

  • February 13, 2018 12:52

  yes please allow markdown /rich text formatting in text field !!!!

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  Lena Groh-Trautmann

  • August 19, 2020 19:00

  Is there a solution by now? We need to be able to edit help text and are stuck.

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