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How can one access the source editor in Cloud?

Mr_ Beedell_ Roke Julian Lockhart _RJLB_
Contributor
September 23, 2025

All of my issues visible via the method which https://pm.stackexchange.com/questions/35810/how-can-i-view-all-of-the-tickets-that-i-have-filed-in-jira#comment45289_35811  describes (currently, https://moodle.atlassian.net/browse/MNET-89 and https://moodle.atlassian.net/browse/MDL-85265) lack the option to enter the source editor when modifying the post, and when adding comments. Because at least one of my issues utilises markup that cannot be achieved via the WYSIWYG editor, how can I modify it?

I was able to access it before the transition to Cloud.

At https://community.atlassian.com/forums/Jira-questions/Re-Re-Where-is-the-source-in-the-description-editor/qaq-p/3115862/comment-id/1149445#M1149445, I was advised to post a separate question about this, rather than ask at existent threads.

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Trudy Claspill
Community Champion
September 26, 2025

Hello @Mr_ Beedell_ Roke Julian Lockhart _RJLB_ 

Can you provide some screen images to help illustrate your scenario? Can you provide more details about the markup that you want to use?

How exactly did you access the feature prior to your transition to the Cloud product?

Atlassian's Cloud products are not designed to offer the exact same capabilities and user experience as the Data Center products, so features you accessed in the Data Center version may simply not be available in the Cloud version.

In Jira there have been a few different text editing/rendering capabilities available for Paragraph/multi-line text fields. However, in Jira Cloud Atlassian recently decided to limit the editor for such fields to just one editor/renderer type as detailed in this article:

We’re removing the default text renderer in Jira 

Mr_ Beedell_ Roke Julian Lockhart _RJLB_
Contributor
September 27, 2025

@Trudy Claspill, that's the best information about at least a similar problem that I've seen thus far; thanks. However, its phrasal is very corporate: what's a “plain text renderer”? I ask because all markup is inherently text/plain, so all renderers render plain text...

What I am looking for is a way to enter plain markup text that is rendered thereafter, like what the “HTML” tab in this editor (link_0_821d4573651bc4_0) provides.

  • Can you provide some screen images to help illustrate your scenario? Can you provide more details about the markup that you want to use?
  • How exactly did you access the feature prior to your transition to the Cloud product?

An example of where the desired editor remains available is https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-136715#descriptionmodule_heading:~:text=Description:

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