Adding richtext story results in comment with HTML code still in it if paragraph tags are used

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Hi,

When adding comments using rich text, if the html markup contains

tags, it renders as html code instead of being processed as rich text. For example:

<body><p><a href="https://github.com/test/app/pull/1234#issuecomment-123123123">comment</a> created</p></body>

renders the html source code (with tags etc.) unprocessed, whereas:

<body><a href="https://github.com/test/app/pull/1234#issuecomment-123123123">comment</a> created</body>

renders as a link and a piece of text.

Kind of a strange glitch …

The workaround, obviously, is to strip all these tags before submitting. But it would be great if they were handled correctly by Asana.

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I think there might be a similar issue with some other tags, like

    , etc… Is there a list of tags supported by the richtext API?

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I meant to say it isn’t processing <br/>. I think maybe it is not processing HTML entities, e.g. &quot;

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@Dobes, Have you seen this:

I think <p> and <br> are not supported, and perhaps not HTML entities either since they’re not explicitly listed as supported.

Hope that helps,

Larry

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Hi, I see, thanks.

I’ll try to stick to that. Hopefully you can at least add support for HTML entities in the future so that special characters can be correctly escaped.