Bold markdown in Dashboard Textbox not rendered correctly

[griffinator76]

Issue Summary

Textbox in Dashboard is supposed to support markdown as per https://www.markdownguide.org/cheat-sheet/#basic-syn (linked to from Textbox editor)

Bold markdown syntax doesn't appear to work though, in preview or in saved Textbox:

Bold text is not rendered as bold, also preceding new line is ignored.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a Dashboard
2. Add a Textbox
3. Enter some text and encapsulate in bold markdown syntax e.g. **this is bold text**
4. Save
5. Text is not displayed as bold

Any other info e.g. Why do you consider this to be a bug? What did you expect to happen instead?

Expected behaviour: using markdown produces bold text

Technical details:

• Redash Version: 7.0.0+b18042 (4a978ba)
• Browser/OS: Firefox 60.8.0esr (64-bit) / Amazon Linux (Workspace)
• How did you install Redash: Self hosted on Kubernetes

[gabrieldutra]

Hi @griffinator76, thanks for reporting, happily this seems to be already fixed in #3686 and should arrive soon in Redash v8 😁. You can confirm whether this is working in our preview environment.

[griffinator76]

Thanks! Sorry, I searched for existing markdown issues but didn't see that one for some reason.

[arikfr]

Btw, this is how your example looks like with v8:

[gabrieldutra]

In any case, "also preceding new line is ignored" seems to still be there 😕.

[kravets-levko]

also preceding new line is ignored

@griffinator76 (cc @gabrieldutra) It's okay: single newline is treat as whitespace. If you want to start a new paragraph, you have to add one more newline before it. So it should look like this:

some text
**bold text**

---

*italics*

> blockquote

**more bold**

[arikfr]

you have to add one more newline before it. So it should look like this:

That or add two spaces at the end of the line.

[gabrieldutra]

Closing as this issue is fixed in Redash v8 🙂