Room topics don't preserve newlines

[hwittenborn]

Steps to reproduce

I have the following room topic set in one of my rooms (#makedeb-general:hunterwittenborn.com):

But when previewing it those newlines aren't preserved:

Outcome

N/A, see above.

Operating system

No response

Application version

Element version: 1.11.3 Olm version: 3.2.12

How did you install the app?

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Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

No

[aaronraimist]

Interestingly it does show new lines when feature_html_topic is enabled. But Element only sends the topic as HTML if there is some other kind of formatting in the topic such as a link or bold text. If the only formatting is new lines it gets sent as plain text and the newlines aren't respected.

[hwittenborn]

Interestingly it does show new lines when feature_html_topic is enabled.

On that note, I've noticed that room topics don't support markdown. It's not completely related to this issue, but I think it'd be nice if they could.

[t3chguy]

That is what the feature mentioned above enables. It is currently in labs.

[shoqvalue]

I've just encountered this problem. I see nothing in Labs. I need to present 3 links in topics, and control their position, but I can't use A tags (so I can't shorten the links using link titles).

• I have discovered that Shift-Enter forces a new line.
• I don't know where "feature_html_topic" is found so I haven't tried this. I assume it's in /preferences somewhere, which I don't have access to. (Will ask when engineer he arrives :)
• It would be useful if "settings" dialog were draggable. It currently covers up the rendering of the space page, so one can't see it while editing the topic ( while in the settings page).
• Functioning markdown or raw HTML would be welcomed here.

[t3chguy]

@shoqvalue you'd need to use a client with labs enabled, like develop.element.io

[shoqvalue]

@shoqvalue you'd need to use a client with labs enabled, like develop.element.io

OIC, thanks. So we'd need a whole new client installed just to see this in action?

[t3chguy]

Labs features are early access features which will eventually make it into mainline, once they are ready.