Renderers

In JEditor, there are two different renderers available for multi-line text fields:

• JEditor Renderer
• JEditor Wiki Style Renderer

To change the renderer for a specific field, you can navigate to Jira administration > Issues > Fields > Field Configurations. From there, you should locate the field configuration associated with the project or issue type you have selected and change the field renderer within that configuration.

JEditor Renderer

Enabling JEditor Renderer for a field in a Field Configuration allows you to use JEditor to edit the field's data.
This renderer provides a WYSIWYG editor and supports both HTML and wiki markup. As a result, when you edit the field, you should see this editor:

JEditor Wiki Style Renderer

Available in JEditor 3.19.0+
beta since 3.19.0

JEditor Wiki Style Renderer is a tool designed for projects that prefer to use Wiki Style Renderer along with Jira's default editor (Jira RTE).

This tool allows rendering of both wiki markup and HTML without changing the editor of the fields to JEditor. This feature is particularly helpful in avoiding formatting issues when moving Jira issues between JEditor and Wiki Style projects.

If an issue containing HTML in the description is moved to a project that uses Wiki Style Renderer to render the description, visible HTML tags are displayed. However, switching from Wiki Style Renderer to JEditor Wiki Style Renderer can help solve this problem.

It's worth noting that when JEditor Wiki Style Renderer renders a field for editing, and the field contains HTML (for example, if the issue was moved from a JEditor-enabled project), the renderer will initialize JEditor's main/HTML editor because Jira's RTE editor doesn't support HTML.

In future releases, we plan to add the ability to convert HTML to wiki markup in this case.

Known issue

JEditor Wiki Style Renderer displays the Comment field differently from Wiki Style Renderer. The Add, Cancel, and Security Level buttons are rendered below the field: