When I change the description on the Attachment field in Jira Cloud, html shows.

[James Breunig]

I have changed the description for Attachment in a Field Configuration to inform the user what to attach. After I do this, in Jira cloud, html paragraph code shows.Is this a known error?

[Angélica Luz · Accepted solution]

Hello James,

Thank you for reaching out to Atlassian Community!

I added a description on the custom field "Attachment" and I was able to replicate the same issue. Then, I found out that it’s a known bug that is happening for a while and affects some custom fields:

• Description of some custom fields are converted to HTML

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Regards,
Angélica

[James Breunig]

Thank you!

[ASC Martin Petráček _admin_]

Attachment field is system field - not customfield - so something that needs to be fixed by Atlassian IMHO. version 8.5.7 was all fine but after upgrade to 8.13.2 it occured.

[Aleksandrs Kozlovs]

The same in 8.13.3. If there an issue key in the description it looks ugly as it rendered to full html like:

<a href="https://jira.....