[SOLVED] Formatting options for Long Text

[Arlo_Haskell]

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.

[Joshua_Bicknell]

+1 Currently using Blocks to produce investment reports and without formatting the long text boxes become very hard to read and use. We are using lots of symbols to try and mix things up – * : etc but not a very good workaround.

[Camille_K]

Another user that would really appreciate formatting capabilities in Airtable here.
Use-case: I have a table with a lot of information, and I’d like to make the actionable items bold so that they stand out amongst the other cells’ text. Markdown, or an equivalent, would be hugely helpful.

[Maria_Korolov]

Add my name to the list of people who would REALLY want to have a rich text editor.

My preference? The WordPress approach of being able to switch between “visual” and “text” views.

[Keita_Miyauchi]

Hello. I also expect long-text format updates!

Markdown and rich content are different things, it is better to think separately.

If you are optimizing for Markdown, I would like an experience like Chrome extension StackEdit.

The following is the mock I made. The input field of Airtable is not textarea, so this Chrome extension does not work.

chrome.google.com

StackEdit Markdown Extension

Add StackEdit to any web site that supports Markdown

[Max_Visser]

Hi I just started using Airtable yesterday for our business operating in IT services. We use github primairly for project management and all our issues on there are written using Markdown. If you use Zapier to create airtable records when an issue on Github is created you can copy over the issue description to a airtable long field. Only now we have all headings and styling missing from the original issue.

It would be great for our use case to be able to use markdown within a long text field. This will help adoption within my organisation.

[11173]

It would be awesome for us using airtable for the purpose of documenting minutes and logs of our daily activities at startups. Airtable could have much wider capabilities if we could use markdown functionalities, even it wouldn’t be a long text field but new markdown field or anything.

[Cameron_Pye]

new airtable user here, experimenting w/ moving whole team to pro but I was kind of shocked to see there was no rich text editor…

would love to use markdown since that’s kind of the defacto standard. I imagine a lot of users would appreciate a gui driven rich text editor (if that compiled to markdown that would be ideal for compatibility) just my 2¢

[T_Y]

and the kicker to all of this is that they already have the code in place for parsing and displaying markdown in the base description modal. :triumph:

[Aaron_Dahlstrom]

The lack of rich text formatting in long text severely limits the usefulness of Airtable. If I want to brainstorm or create notes, I have to use a separate application or program because any “long text” quickly becomes unreadable without formatting.

Please prioritize this very common and highly requested feature.

[Pascal_LEFEVRE]

Agreed. Formatting of long text would really be nice.

It would also be nice to be able to format the records (and center them vertically) when you increase the row height.