Rich Text Support

Mobile Beta
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Hey team @nick.carroll
Is Rich text not still yet support. I thought this was fixed a while ago. I just hadn’t visited that part of our Mobile app since then, only to learn from users that its still not working.
Any help on this ?

Thanks

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The challenge with rich text support on mobile is that bbcode is just not well supported in react native, so its actually a pretty annoying problem to solve and would require a different implementation from web in order to make it work. We have explored some different directions, but its currently not a high priority to tackle in the short term. I know its not the answer you’d like to hear, but its something we want to eventually fix so I’ll keep the community in the loop where bandwidth opens up to tackle this

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let web support markdown? :smiley:

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Thanks @nick.carroll for the response.

When a text or sentence is Rich formatted, it’s completely omitted and that line becomes empty on preview.

Several parts of our mobile app has many user created contents from the web platform, which will be read on mobile, and this makes it feel weird and incomplete.

Are there any recomended alternatives or workaround for this?

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Anything at all?

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I got around this by saving the rich text as html and rendering it in an html element in the native version. Not ideal, but worked

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@lucas_bennington Hi, Thanks for your response.

  1. How do you save them as html

  2. How do you display html element on the native builder?

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Certain rich text plugins can save as html or you can use a javascript selector to pull the html out of the rich text element.

To display, you can use the html display mobile plugin or you can put the html block on a web page and then render it as a block on the native mobile side. I personally went with the plugin

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Absolutely ridiculous that we are 3 years into AI and this still hasn’t happened. What apps do you think users are making? AI responses are markdown. Apps have “copy as markdown.” We’re in the markdown era. BBCode is boomer slop. Please @nick.carroll !