JIRA renderers affect the display of a field's content, 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 drop-down list of options; and
- the Select List Renderer, which simply provides a drop-down list of options.
(please note: for custom fields of type "Multi Select", only the Select List Renderer is available)