[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.

[David_Lee]

Markdown would be super helpful. I approve this message.

[James_King]

+1 for Markdown support in long-text fields.

[jtmusson]

+1 for this. The same formatting options as exist in a base description would be ace.

[jn08]

+1 from me too. This is one of the big things stopping me from switching my solution over.

[Kumar_Indresh]

naked links looks so messy
wish I could hide long URLs with markdown

[Tomas_Baranek]

+1 surprised Airtable actually understands markdown (in base description fields)!

[Karlstens]

Formatting options for Long Text would be such a powerful thing to have!

What have other users been doing to get around this limitation?

[jn08]

I use encoding - square brackets for bold and curly brackets for italics.
Can sub in HTML tags in a formula for outputting.

[Carlos_Pita]

Specially for urls this would be great. Currently if you need to link to multiple urls you have to create an url table and add multiple links from the current record to records in the url table. Besides, this won’t be well integrated (wiki style) in the record notes/description.

Trello mixes the concept of attachment and urls. Since Airtable already support a multiple attachment field, a generalization that sees urls as a kind of external attachment would also support the particular use case I described above.

[Garland_Coulson]

+1 for formatting in long text. Also being able to add pictures and videos would be awesome.