HTML Text Formatter in TextBox Component

[joinlook]

Sometimes I want a link in the body of my text, other times I want a single emboldened word.

It would be amazing if the very editor that is available here in the forum was available in the editor for every TextBox component.

Along the same note, how might we incorporate this html text formatter into our apps so that a user could add some pizzazz to their text input?

[campopianoa]

Hi there,

I found a few potentially relevant posts for you in case any of them help at the moment.

[DONE] Seeking: a Rich Text display

We’ve just installed mistune in the Server Module environment. So you can now convert Markdown to HTML without needing to copy-paste the mistune module into Anvil. [image] https://anvil.works/ide#clone:YQWUZQFCP5A5IQ2H=27BCTY6GFMHGHSK53UEYVDIB

A custom HTML component

I’ve had a fair number of use cases where I create a custom HTML form just for the purpose of adding it to another form as a component. But it’s only used on just that one other form. Can that be simplified by adding in a component that is a custom HTML component? That component could be added directly to my form rather than needing to create the intermediate form. It could have an html property that could take any HTML you’d normally put into the custom HTML form. This might be particular …

How can I insert HTML into a label?

I had a feeling after I replied that you might have meant that Anvil Central will need to confirm but I don’t think there is a direct way to do that at the moment. But in the mean time, here’s a workaround : create a material project with custom HTML form create a new HTML asset page and add this : <script> function updateHTML(html) { el = document.getElementsByClassName("anvil-role-mycustomlabel")[0]; el.innerHTML=html; } </script> Select this…

Display text in various formats in the same component

That would be great. Using JS to update HTML is no problem for me, but injecting the data from Anvil / Python into it is another matter… Edit: this is probably the example you mentioned…? Dropdown Navigation