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Stuart Bishop (stub) wrote : Re: [Bug 72730] Needs a way to use HTML in widget/hint

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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