How do I indent text in Jira Cloud Description and Comment fields?

[eirens]

This area seems like a disaster, so I'm asking the question directly myself to get a straight, up to date answer.

[carlosughini · Accepted solution]

Hello Smith,

I really understand how frustrating this can be, but, unfortunately, it is not possible to indent text in Jira Cloud Description and Comment fields at the moment.

There is a feature request on Jira Cloud to support a Text Editor on Jira, similar to Confluence. I strongly recommend voting, watching and leaving a comment there so the project managers can understand better how this is impacting you. You can check the feature request in the link below:

• JRACLOUD-8943 

As a workaround you can use the 'no format' notation as you can see on the image below:

{noformat} 
   Text1    
       Text2        
            Text3 {noformat}

Please give a try and let me know if it helps.

Cheers,

Carlos

[eirens]

@carlosughiniThank you for that link and that workaround.

Do you know why we cannot indent in Jira Software Cloud? Maybe it was previously possible?

[carlosughini]

Hello Smith,

My apologies, but I'm not sure if it was possible in the past, I know that we can indent on Confluence.

Cheers,

Carlos

[eirens]

Thank you, Carlos.

[Christopher Beck]

Unfortunately the new WYSIWYG rich text editor linked about by @carlosughini does not support indenting or outdenting.  Sadly, after a decade or more of pondering they decided that less text functionality than Markdown was the way to go. 

[Nic Johnson]

The alternate keystroke for tab is ALT+09

Hold ALT then press 0 (zero), then 9 (nine)

Will tab as many times as you want. 

Works in most online text editors.  

[Michael Komisarenko]

Thanks for the hack. I am surprised Atlassian would not do anything about it.