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[evan]

Hi all,

Is any kind of formatting possible in the field description?  Linebreaks would make it more readable for lengthier descriptions about how information should be entered.  Thanks!

-evan

[ryan]

Currently that's not possible, but I think it would be easy for us to add an nl2br() function to convert newlines to <br /> tags in the field description output. Let me know if that's what you are looking for and I can add it.

[evan]

That's basically what I was thinking, yes.  Thanks!

[ryan]

Linebreaks are now supported in the field descriptions (dev branch). It just runs the description text through PHP's nl2br() before outputting it. While I was there, I also made it so that you can use markdown style links in field descriptions as well. i.e.

[ProcessWire](http://processwire.com)

[evan]

Did this ever make it to the master 2.2 branch? Doesn't seem to be working for me. Thanks!

EDIT: Oops, thought I was supposed to type out newlines, looks like it just recognizes them. Works great!

[Martijn Geerts]

While I was there, I also made it so that you can use markdown style links in field descriptions as well. i.e.

[ProcessWire](http://processwire.com)

This is great, now we can link to information whatever we want. To explain how to use MarkDown For example.