Documentation for JIRA 5.2. Documentation for other versions of JIRA is available too.

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).
      (info) 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.
      (info) 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.
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