Catalog Item Long Description is not parsing html

[eggoide]

Hi all,

in petrosian-1.20230912222549_a07cb46 , the long descriptions are no longer parsed as html but just as plain text.
It is not possible to format the text in description in any way. Is there any fix or workaround? It used to work in previous
versions of ManageIQ.

Thank you

[Fryguy]

Hi @eggoide ... This was an intentional decision to avoid various security issues that can happen with supporting HTML. Instead, we support Markdown in that Long Description, which should give you just about anything you could need, so in your case use **test** (test) as the text.

[eggoide]

@Fryguy Thank you for the answer, is there something that needs to be put in the description editor to tell it it is in markdown?
Because it is not parsing markdown either:

[Fryguy]

That's strange - which version are you using?

[Fryguy]

@eggoide It looks like this landed in quinteros: ManageIQ/manageiq-ui-classic#8972

I think the way this came about is we noticed the HTML wasn't working, and then when we went to fix it, it opened up a can of security worms, so we switched to markdown.

[eggoide]

@Fryguy We have petrosian-1.20230912222549_a07cb46, so I guess we would have to upgrade to make it work.