Needs a way to use HTML in widget/hint

[Francis J. Lacoste]

It is not possible to use HTML in widget/hint because the hint is HTML escaped by default.
Using 'structure' to prevent this escaping is not necessarily a good idea because it would assume
that all schema descriptions are valid HTML string which is too broad an assumption to make.

We either need to mark schema's description containing a valid HTML using a marker interface or
adds a special field to widget that would contain HTML to inject in the template.

[Stuart Bishop (stub)]

Francis J. Lacoste wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> It is not possible to use HTML in widget/hint because the hint is HTML escaped by default.
> Using 'structure' to prevent this escaping is not necessarily a good idea because it would assume
> that all schema descriptions are valid HTML string which is too broad an assumption to make.
>
> We either need to mark schema's description containing a valid HTML using a marker interface or
> adds a special field to widget that would contain HTML to inject in the template.

I think the outcome of previous discussions was to standardize on a subset
of Wiki markup and enable its use for selected fields such as descriptions.

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[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

That was for user input (product descriptions etc). I think Francis is talking about help for form fields.

[Francis J. Lacoste (flacoste)]

Indeed that's what I'm talking about. But I don't see why we couldn't apply that markup to docstring/schema title and description also.

[Curtis Hovey (sinzui)]

Tim implemented this.