[JENKINS-72794] Improve support for Markup Formatter in description field

[jenkins-infra-bot]

It would be nice if the field description support for markup formatter could be improved by resolving the following:

Currently, the description is always put in a tag, which breaks HTML semantics when adding elements like

.
Also, the description field does not show any information about the markup formatter, nor does it support syntax highlighting like seen on other Jenkins' forms.

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Originally reported by northblue333, imported from: Improve support for Markup Formatter in description field

• assignee: t_westling
• status: Open
• priority: Minor
• component(s): build-failure-analyzer-plugin
• resolution: Unresolved
• votes: 0
• watchers: 1
• imported: 2025-12-07

Raw content of original issue

It would be nice if the field description support for markup formatter could be improved by resolving the following:

Currently, the description is always put in a <b> tag, which breaks HTML semantics when adding elements like <table>.
Also, the description field does not show any information about the markup formatter, nor does it support syntax highlighting like seen on other Jenkins' forms.

• environment: 2.5.0

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