Hi I have an integration that creates Asana tasks based on a Google form being submitted. It builds a valid rich text Description using supported HTML tags, example as follows: <body> <ul> <li>Item 1: Data From Form</li> <li>Item 2: Data From Form</li> </ul> </bod…

Thanks @Daniel_Wiltshire , that’s very helpful! The issue here is caused by the whitespaces in the html_notes field you’re sending. You can easily confirm this by logging the raw JSON of your request, for example: console.log(JSON.stringify(options)) # Output html_notes: "<body> O…

Hi @Daniel_Wiltshire , and welcome to Asana Forum! It looks like the issue is caused by the new line characters in the html_notes field. This is expected behavior — to remove the extra spacing between list items, you’ll need to eliminate the new lines from the HTML string in your request body. Righ…

Thanks for your reply Dominik. The “real” HTML I’m generating doesn’t have the new lines, I was just providing an example. What is really strange is that the descriptions have always looked fine with no extra spaces etc, until today!

Hi @Daniel_Wiltshire , Could you please share a code snippet or the exact request you’re sending? I haven’t seen any similar reports so far, but if the behavior has indeed changed, I’ll run some tests and raise it with the relevant team. Any additional details you can provide would be super helpful…

Sure. We’re using AppsScript to generate the description and call the API. Relevant sections code snippets are: Code to generate the description using values from the submitted form. const taskDescription = `<body> Ops<ul> <li>Requested by: ${g…

[image] Dominik_Brdak: replace(/>\s+</g, '><'); Hi That works perfectly, thank you! I still think something must have changed somewhere there, as the “wrong” code has been creating tasks with the format looking as expected for several months now, and then suddenly the formatting on already …

Incorrect rendering of valid rich text in the Description field

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On a related note: Further Markdown Support might make this easier.

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Incorrect rendering of valid rich text in the Description field

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