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Formatting Descriptions on Ticket Forms

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  • April 3, 2019
  • 43 replies
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+1


  • March 8, 2022

Is it possible to get fields in a ticket set up to have a brief description either when you have over the field name or to have an information symbol next to the field name? There is one field that has this function and it would be nice if the description added for a field in the admin portal would be available in a pop-up for end-users to see. 


Dave12
  • Employee
  • March 9, 2022
Hi Chance, 
 
If you enter a description in the "Description shown to end users" field when you're setting up or editing a ticket field that appears on the end-user ticket submission form, the description will be shown there under the field. This is a text-only field, however:
 


  • April 12, 2022

+1
Need the ability to line break the description. Now the 4 levels description are all lump together. Can Zendesk development team include this feature? The first post is dated 3 years ago. 


Test22
  • May 31, 2022

+1 here. We really need a way to line brake the description of certain fields. It doesn't make sens to be able to add a ton of text without any formatting....


Galen11
  • June 2, 2022

+1 for all the great reasons already given.


  • June 15, 2022

+1 to this feature request.


  • June 24, 2022

+ 1 this would help our users to be able to decide which form to fill out


  • September 13, 2022

Zendesk any update on the above?


Brett Bowser
  • Community Manager
  • September 19, 2022

Hey everyone,

I chatted with our Product Management team in charge of this functionality and it doesn't look like we have any updates to share at this time. Resources are currently dedicated to other high priority projects like "custom ticket statuses". They will likely take a look at this request some time in 2023.

Thanks for taking the time to share this feedback with us and rest assured we will update this post once we have more information to share.

Cheers!


  • February 14, 2023

+1 for this request


Keelan11
  • February 16, 2023

Would be great to be able to add formatting and read-only fields for ticket forms in Support and on guide


  • June 12, 2023

@Brett Bowser checking in to see if there is any update to this? 


Subodh
  • August 24, 2023

Hey @brett13

Do we have any updates on this feature request?

Custom statuses are already available, so could Zendesk allocate resources for this long-awaited feature?

The Gather posts have formatting options, but ticket descriptions for end users do not, which is very limiting.


  • Employee
  • September 18, 2023
Hi Edward,
 
At this time, we don't have a native option or a condition wherein we can set a minimum or limit the characters that an end-user can send to create a new ticket. However, this can be done via DOM manipulation (document object model). Elements rendered by the HTML to summarize, but this is custom code and cannot guide you on implementing this. The idea will be to set a "maxLength" attribute value to the Description field in your ticket form. I hope that helps. Thank you!
 

Hannah12
  • November 3, 2023

Hi! Is there a way to only change the text color on a string of text in the descriptor? We want to highlight/draw the eye on specific items in only one of our forms' end-user descriptions but I'm having trouble locating a way how. Currently, the .form-field p in the style.css code changes the text color for all forms. :)


Sydney11
  • January 27, 2025

+1 this has been requested for 5 years now. Is there any change in priority around this?


Josef11
  • Newcomer
  • April 9, 2025

+ 1
We would like to see:

  • Line breaks
  • Bold text
  • Links

     

For us, we don't care if it's done via HTML or Markdown.