Newline Character in Topic Description

[Dakota Alverson]

How can I get a paragraph break in the description field of a Topic on the home page of my customer portal?

I have tried \n and \\

[Mikael Sandberg]

Hi @Dakota Alverson,

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

You do not have to add any special line break characters in the Portal introduction text, just treat the field as a normal multi-line text field. Here is an example of our looks like:

  

And this is what it looks like on the Portal

[Dakota Alverson]

Hi Mikael, thanks for your response. 

This is what I initially tried:

When I save the configuration, this is how it looks: 

   

Do you have any suggestions for how to solve this? 

Thanks :) 

[Mikael Sandberg]

Odd, it should follow the normal text formatting notation. Have you tried any of the other notations to see if they work, like the one of the text effects or headings?