Jira 8 Essentials - Fifth Edition

Field rendering

Renderers control how a field will be displayed when it is being viewed or edited. Some built-in and custom fields have more than one renderer, and for these fields, you can choose which one to use. For example, for text-based fields, such as Description, you can choose to use the simple text renderer or the more sophisticated wiki-style renderer that will allow you to use wiki markup to add more styling.

Jira ships with four different renderers:

• Default text renderer: This is the default renderer for text-based fields. Contents are rendered as plain text. If the text resolves a Jira issue key, the renderer will automatically turn that into an HTML link.
• Wiki style renderer: This is an enhanced renderer for text-based fields. ...