I would love to see basic text formatting options for the long text field. At a minimum: bold and italic formatting would be a huge help.
I would like to use long text fields to store short bios for writers. But without the ability to have italic formatting, I can’t properly format the titles of their books.
The markdown formatting tools available in this Airtable community message editor would be perfect.
Yep, rich text is something that I’ve been asking for a while. They continue to add amazing new stuff but this simple one doesn’t seem to make the priority list.
Totally agree – I posted on this a while ago and it’s gotten a lot of interest from users, but no action from Airtable yet. Here’s that post if you’d like to chime in over there: Formatting options for Long Text
Rich text, please! Not just because QuickBase and others provide it, but because it’s hugely useful-for example, in a content management system, if the articles can be in rich text fields, they can be exported for publication. Or using the new Page Designer Block, rich text can be injected into output documents. The user support for this feature is obvious and long.
Very much agreed! We’re having to store our product descriptions outside of Airtable as they’re unusable without formatting. Introducing rich text would be a huge improvement, and would also enable us to create product information sheets, catalogues, etc with the Page Designer block.
Think something like the word processor you can use to compose emails in Gmail. It’s simple but really powerful. With bolding and bullet points, this would allow me to create more organized looking notes within Airtable.
+1 The one thing missing for allowing Airtable to be used as CMS (and opening up a market for them) is rich text editing or at least Markdown (with support for images).
