markdown in field descriptions

[Marty Walker]

Hello,

I want to use the field description to explain the usage of some markdown syntax. How do I stop it rendering the markdown I'm entering?

I've tried wrapping the lines in <pre><code> but it doesn't seem to work.

-Marty

[Jan Romero]

Excellent question. I’ve been having this problem as well. So far I haven’t found a better way than disrupting markdown with zero-width non-breaking spaces, e.g. ***⁠*This is bold****.

Edit: note how I was going to use a zero-width non-breaking space inside the entity above to keep that from rendering, but decided against it so you could just copy it. So be aware if you use this method, your users won’t be able to copy your example code from your field description and try it out in the field.

[Marty Walker]

Thanks for the reply. My people will probably want to copy/paste the examples.