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HTML tags on field descriptions not working on JIRA 6?

Guilherme Peres

I used to put HTML tags on many custom field descriptions on JIRA 5 with no problem whatsoever, they always worked like what's described in here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Displaying+a+Field+Based+on+Another+Field+Selection

However, when I upgraded to JIRA 6.1, the tags are not changing anything on the page. Insteadm they just show up in the description as raw HTML code. On the page's source code, the tags are shown as, e.g., </script>. And I can't seem to find any documentation stating specifically that HTML on field descriptions are not supported anymore. Are they really not supported, or is something wrong with my JIRA?

Accepted answers

Henning Tietgens

AFAIK, from JIRA 6 on plugin custom fields are not allowed anymore to support HTML in the description for security reasons. It's only supported by the system fields and standard custom fields already provided by JIRA. (Reference: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-28776)

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RambanamP

you can try with following script

&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;  
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
	JIRA.bind(JIRA.Events.NEW_CONTENT_ADDED, function (e,context) {				
				showHideFieldFunction();
			});
			showHideFieldFunction();
			
function showHideFieldFunction(){
			showHideField();
//select list
			$('#customfield_10933').change(function() {		
				showHideField();
			});	
}

function showHideField(){
	var selectListSelectedValue=$("#customfield_10933 option:selected").text();
	if(selectListSelectedValue == 'Yes'){
	//Text area field
		$('#customfield_10934').closest('div.field-group').show();
	}esle{
		$('#customfield_10934').closest('div.field-group').hide();
	}

}
});
&lt;/script&gt;

the above script will work if add it on field description of the custom field in field configuration except in create screen

if you load this script as webresource module in plugin then it will work on create screen also

check this

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/47843/strange-javascript-problem-in-create-screen

Guilherme Peres

I don't think that's the issue here. It's not only scripts that stop working, but any HTML tags at all. Even if I write <b>Something</b>, it will not show up as bold, it'll show the tags just like here.

Besides, if this was the problem, it would already have stopped working on JIRA 5, which was not the case.

RambanamP

we are using <a></a> and <div></div> tags to create help text in jira 6.1 and those are working fine

Guilherme Peres

That's on a field description, I presume. Strange, it doesn't work here at all... Might have something to do with some system configuration, then? I don't know where to look.

Henning Tietgens

Guilherme Peres

That's exactly the problem, thank you. Kind of saddened by this, but it's no use complaining, as I see.

Chris Kent

Hi,

Just reading this thread, as I had the same problem as the first person.

What I just found out is that this is shit.... So any changes made to the field description in the "Custom Fields" screen is not translated to any of the "Field Configurations". So for every change made to a custom field, this change has to be made manually to every Field Configuration that uses this field.

Wow, that really sucks Atlassian...

Henning Tietgens

I'm using a script (using script runner plugin) for populating all field configurations (and the field itself) with a new description. If someone is interested I could post it here.

Paul Jarman

Henning,

I would appreciate getting a look at your script. Code examples go a long way toward helping me understand the intricacies of an implementation. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Paul

Henning Tietgens

Attached UpdateCustomfieldDescription.txt.

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