JIRA issue title formatting

[Arturas Rimkus]

Is it possible to apply text formatting (bold, italics) to JIRA issue title field? Is it perhaps possible to do it with a custom plug-in? I'm talking about bolding selected words in the title.

[Georges Moubarak]

Hi @Arturas Rimkus,

Actually you can do it by adding the following in the announcement banner. This script changes the font, set it as bold and italic. You can change it as you like.

<script type="text/javascript">

(function($){ jQuery(document).ready(function($){

document.getElementById("summary-val").style.fontFamily = "'Times New Roman', Times, serif";
document.getElementById("summary-val").style.fontWeight = "900";
document.getElementById("summary-val").style.fontStyle = "italic";
$(function(){

});

}); })(jQuery);
(AJS.$);
</script>

[Arturas Rimkus]

Hi Georges. Do I understand correctly that this would only work if I'm displaying the issue summary within the confines of the announcement banner? My ultimate goal is to format the issue titles in the Backlog.

[Georges Moubarak]

Hi @Arturas Rimkus,

Unfortunately no text field can have different formatting in the database.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

That trick is only going to format the summary in places where it is exposed in a style tagged as the summary-val - it'll happen in some places but not all of them (because it's wrapped in different tags in some places) and it's not formatting part of the summary, it's the whole string.

[Arturas Rimkus]

A couple of questions. (1) Would an announcement banner need to be displayed on the page if I wanted to run this script? (2) This script finds element by id and styles it. Can I also search for a specific string in issue titles and then apply the bold style to it if I find it?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

1) No, you don't have to put anything in the banner that is visible to the user.  The banner in JIRA is always there, but when it's empty, there's nothing for the browser to do, so nothing really appears.  If you put a script in it, then it'll run the script, not display it (assuming the tags are right, so the browser knows to run it.  You should be able to literally paste in Georges' script as it's spot on)

2) I'm out of my depth with javascript there, as I tend to avoid it.  I am pretty sure you can do it, but the script and output could be quite complex.  You'll need to be transforming something like "We like kittens" into "We <tags to separate words> like <more tags> kittens" and set the surrounding style and the style inside the tags.

[Georges Moubarak]

Hi @Arturas Rimkus,

1)Nothing will be displayed in the announcement banner.

2)I am not a Javascript expert so I don't know if you can apply a styling to a string. But I doubt it could be done.

[Arturas Rimkus]

Thank you both, you gave me a good starting point, I will investigate further.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, the summary is a plain text field, it has no rendering capabilities.