Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
How it works…
JIRA allows us to use any valid HTML for custom field description, so we added a simple
text and an anchor tag that links to an HTML page containing our help information. We
also added a span tag with the proper style class to have the nice question mark icon used
by
Issue Type
and
Priority
fields.
The
data-helplink="local"
attribute for the anchor tag ensures when the user
clicks on the help icon; the help page is opened in a separate page rather than redirecting
the current page.
Tip
Since the custom field description is rendered as it is, make sure you validate your HTML,
for example, close all your HTML tags.
