Quick question: Show Markdown code in field notes

[wheelmaker24]

Hi,

just a quick question: I want to add the following text to the note field of a template field:

To add a link insert [Title](http://www.your.url) to your text.

Unfortunately this is parsed automatically and it shows something like this:

To add a link insert Title to your text.

I tried escaping the Markdown code with backslashes, but this didn't lead to the expected result. Any ideas?

Thanks!
Nik 

[Jan Romero]

I use a zero-width space word joiner character to destroy the markdown:

[Link-Beschreibung]⁠(http://www.beispiel.de)

This will prevent users from copying it from the field description, though…

[nikosch]

Escaping? https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#backslash Or do I get the question wrong?

[wheelmaker24]

Hi nikosch, I've tried escaping with backslashes, but this does not seem to work:

To add a link insert \[Title\]\(http://www.your.url\) to your text.

Jan's solution is working, although as he said copying the phrase is not possible for authors then.

[LostKobrakai]

Ryan is not using a markdown parser for field descriptions/notes as they're only supporting a small subset of markdown (I think links/bold/italic and that's it) and it's faster this way, but that's probably the reason, why escaping doesn't work. 

[wheelmaker24]

I see! I'll keep it with Jan's solution then ;-) Thanks, everybody!

[Robin S]

An old topic but I just hit this problem too, where I want to give an example of Markdown format in the field description without that actually being converted into HTML.

I solved it by setting the Inputfield textFormat property in a hook:

// Avoid Markdown in description/notes being converted into HTML
// Adjust as needed for your Inputfield type and field name
$wire->addHookAfter('InputfieldTextarea::renderReadyHook', function(HookEvent $event) {
	/** @var InputfieldTextarea $inputfield */
	$inputfield = $event->object;
	if($inputfield->name === 'my_field_name') {
		$inputfield->textFormat = Inputfield::textFormatNone;
	}
});