How to do WYSIWYG editing on issue description

[Desktop User]

Hi,

Maybe it was an older verrsion of Jira, but isn't there a way to enable WYSIWYG editing on issues (just like I can here on this Q&A)? I hit the edit icon and it allows me to edit text or markup but I'd like to have the enhanced wysiwg editor available.

Thanks!

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

No, Jira's editor is pretty much plain text.

There are a couple of plugins that do something a lot more wysiwyg on text fields - have a look for tinymce jira (I think that might have stopped development though) and jeditor.

[Igor Lino]

Here is the official reason. and also the feature request item: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-8943 To everyone: vote for it!

[Igor Lino]

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.jira.plugins.jira-wiki-editor is kind handy meanwhile. Its free, very lightweight, not proprietary, does not introduce anything besides the nice menu for formatting 

[Rob Horan]

There are some major downsides to JEditor.  Update notification emails are not formatted - yes, this means a ton of HTML tags.

A second issue, just as bad, is that JEDitor only allows paste of images using IE.

[Deleted user]

Hi!

There is paid "Simple Edit" Add-On for JIRA Cloud

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/simple-edit

[Desktop User]

How odd, I can't find the jeditor plugin from the Add-ons -> Find new add-ons screen

[Norman Abramovitz]

There is a paid plugin for that.

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.jiraeditor.jeditor