Description of Field with new line

[ITST]

Is it possible to add newlines in the description of the custom fields or system fields? e.g. the description of the field "Description" BR Elke

[Raju KC · Accepted solution]

User \\ for line break

[ITST]

thank you also. :-)

[Christophe_Pot]

Make sure to leave a space juste after the \\.

[Henning Tietgens]

Yes, html tags should work. So <br> should be fine to add a line break.

[ITST]

thank you very much. It works perfectly. :-)

[Nick]

I've tried every combination from \n, <br>, </br>, <\br> and the only thing that works is "\\" but because all my markdown is in one single line the header tags just appear as "h2" they don't actually format until I edit the description and put them on their own line :/

[Henning Tietgens]

See this question for a discussion about that. Starting with Jira 6 HTML is only possible in system field descriptions.

[Marcus Lillemägi]

Having same issue as Nicholas Worth above.

Using "\\" for linebreak works but Header (h2) size remains on all three rows decpite "new line" First example is when i went in and manually made a new line in JIRA Cloud

[Kajaal Dias]

Did you find any workaround? I'm trying to format some text before sending it to my CSV file but I encountered the same issue...