Is there any way to turn off text surrounded by underscore from displaying as italics

Elly Clein

SQL table/column names when I am writing tests are becoming corrupted due to all the underscores. It is not feasible to add an escaping "/" into them all as I am copy/pasting selects from SQL.

Is there no way to turn off these settings? Similar to putting hyphens around text that causes them to strikethrough. It should not be automatic. It severely cripples functionality. I want the tester to be able to copy and paste the SQL back out of Jira but it has characters missing when displayed.

Daniel Eads

Hi @Elly Clein , welcome to the Community!

It's possible to change the renderer for fields like Description to the "Default renderer", which doesn't parse underscores as markdown. However, this only affects the old issue view in Jira - and by default you're likely looking at the issue using the new issue view. Going back to the old issue view is primarily done per-user, so I wouldn't suggest this as the best course of action going forward.

Instead, I'll suggest using the code block to paste into, as this should retain any special characters. In the example here, you can see I've pasted the same text both in and out of the code block:

There are two ways to generate the code block:

1. The formatting toolbar at the top can be used to create the code block
2. You can use backticks (```) while typing to create the code block. This works with pastes too - if the paste you're making is surrounded by three ``` characters at the beginning / end, the whole thing will paste into a code block in Jira.

You can also use code formatting in-line by using single backticks around the item, which might be helpful if you're just mentioning table names. For example, writing this in Jira:

I can reference `MUCH_DATA` while typing. I can also say `ANOTHER_TABLE` without italics.

renders in-line code formatting for the tables:

Hopefully that helps makes the SQL easier to type!

Cheers,
Daniel