HTML in the build description is pretty commonly used. The GitHub PR Builder plugin uses it for linking back to PRs for example. We've used it in our system for many other things like linking to Gerrit patches, or to JIRA tickets tracking analysis of job failures.

Jakub Pawlinski Barak Korren very interesting. 

So - I think links and the link should be reasonable in markup - but as for other elements - that won't really work without a very odd looking sandbox (or iframe), I would like to see a screen cap of a display description with tables and images though - if you have one handy you can share? 

attached example where you can see description property used in two different ways:

• with images (icons) and links in build history
• with table, links in pipeline description

in some cases we have attached graphs from build and test performance and as well 

My stuff is publicly accessible so I don't need to censor screenshots

Attached screenshot with descriptions created by the GHPRB plugin, with links to PRs.

Also note the use of the "title" attribute in the link HTML tags, to provide more information on mouse hover.

in my case its easier to censor than to explain why I didn't

In one of our projects I use link icons in description for a quick access to metrics and artifacts. It is of course not rendered in Blue Ocean. 

In Blue Ocean 1.4, passing the following system property at startup will allow you to disable descriptions:

-Dblueocean.feature.run.description.enabled=false

Kasia Gauza is that using the run description?

I am also experiencing the same issue but I do not want to disable build description. I want to display links there via Markdown or HTML it does not matter.

But I need a way to have my build description to look nice and to contain links in both UI's. 

We need way to display links in build description for both UI's

React (which Blue Ocean uses) strips out HTML elements which is probably where the problem is coming from.  An easy solution (not sure about good) would be to use a JS library like react-render-html to wrap the message prop passed in RunDescription.jsx.  That uses an Alert component to display the description so it might also need to be wrapped there but that could affect a lot more.

I appear to be running into this issue as well in the Blue Ocean interface when viewing the recent build history. I am assuming these are directly related, and that any fix would address it as well?

Vote for the issue so it will be developed sooner

Chris Jones Would you be able to submit a patch to the blueocean-plugin to try this?

I'll see what I can put together for it.

Hi,

Is there any plan to get this fixed in a future version of the Blue Ocean plugin(s)?

Thanks

Give a vote and hope for Chris Jones to have time to try the patch mentioned above

Chris Jones would you have some update on this issue to share please?

+1

We have HTML auto-populated build descriptions (with tables and etc). It turns to unreadable tons of text, and we have to scroll 10 screens down to execution graph.

At least we need an option to switch off build description in Blue Ocean.

Adding this to the startup options worked to disable display of descriptions for runs in BlueOcean (haven't tried in recent versions):

-Dblueocean.feature.run.description.enabled=false

Chris Jones are there any updates on this?

+1 for supporting HTML in the description.  We don't have the complex tables that other mentioned, but just a simple link back to the pull-request.  Really miss having this in Blue Ocean, although at least for a link I can copy/paste it go there.

Any update on this? It's also a need for us

For those who are using a browser that supports chrome extensions, I've worked on this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blue-ocean-description-ht/maahpenodjcdhodbonmdkfgnceddigae

This chrome extension will update the description box to use HTML. The source code can be found here: https://github.com/JRJurman/blue-ocean-description-htmlify-chrome-extension

If you find any issues or would like to propose a change feel free to post a PR or Issue on github. 

Any update on this one ?

We need to display some data in order to quickly understand who launched a pipeline and what it did and therefore.

It would be very nice if we could have the same nice display as in the old interface.