JIRA renderers affect how a JIRA field's content is either displayed to the user (for text fields) or how a user enters field data (for multi-select fields), thereby enabling you to choose a style which best suits your organisation and your users.

JIRA currently ships with the following renderers:

• For text fields:
  • The Default Text Renderer, which displays plain text; and
  • The Wiki Style Renderer (utilising the Confluence wiki engine), which displays rich text (HTML).
    To see how a 'Wiki Style Renderer' field will look when it is displayed to a user, please see Editing Rich-Text Fields.
• For multi-select fields:
  • The Autocomplete Renderer, which allows the user to start typing text which is then 'autocompleted', or to select from a dropdown list of options; and
  • The Select List Renderer, which simply provides a dropdown list of options.
    For custom fields of type Multi Select, only the Select List Renderer is available. Furthermore, when modifying a field configuration, you will not be able to configure a Multi Select custom field's renderer.