Richtext not working on Roll20 GM token info?

Hello, long time user, first time poster; but I've run into a rather annoying nuisance when it comes to richtext token info not working when pasted into GM info. I'll try to illustrate this below. Here,I'm pasting a richtext 4e custom statblock I made and pasted into a token so I can reference to it at a glance during combat, looks great! Now, let's save it and see how it looks after saving and closing it. What. What happened to the rich-text? It was just there! Why did it disappear when I saved and closed the token interface? And so, this is my conundrum, I'm not sure if it's some sort of error on my end or roll20's or if it's intentional. I'm just wanting some answers and some possible help with this, so I don't have to constantly paste the richtext into notepad, copy that, and paste it into the token just to have stats that looked cluttered in the simple text the notepad provides to me. Thank you in advance!

Im pretty sure its an issue of what you want to do not being supported. I think the only supported way to do any formatting in the Gm notes or other text fields in game is with markdown formatting. anything else is probably "sanitized" for security reasons, or not kept just because the back end doesn't know how to handle it.

Seems to work on the dev server, at least when it comes to pasting simple HTML formatting like stat-blocks

Roger A. said: Im pretty sure its an issue of what you want to do not being supported. I think the only supported way to do any formatting in the Gm notes or other text fields in game is with markdown formatting. anything else is probably "sanitized" for security reasons, or not kept just because the back end doesn't know how to handle it. How would one do this markdown formatting? Ken L. said: Seems to work on the dev server, at least when it comes to pasting simple HTML formatting like stat-blocks Same with the HTML, I could try replicating it and seeing what happens. Thanks to both of you for the responses!

Patrick S. said: How would one do this markdown formatting? Here's a link to a site explaining Markdown that Brian shared in another post . <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/" rel="nofollow">http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/</a> I don't think markdown is supported within journals and handouts yet, or will be... ? Limited markdown seems to be supported for campaign descriptions, account profile bio, and chat(currently dev only...?). Seems to be hit and miss when pasting rich text into roll20. It's an extra step, by you may get better results pasting into a word processor first then copy/paste into roll20. Don't ask me why, but I noticed that some of the tables that normally had width 100% on a website(like the srd) would paste into roll20 as a fixed width, but if I did the pre-word processor first, the table would paste into roll20 with a fluid format which was much more desirable. There are other strange behaviors as well. I wish we could see the code behind the text so we could make adjustments if necessary.

Vince said: Patrick S. said: How would one do this markdown formatting? Here's a link to a site explaining Markdown that Brian shared in another post . <a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/" rel="nofollow">http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/</a> I don't think markdown is supported within journals and handouts yet, or will be... ? Limited markdown seems to be supported for campaign descriptions, account profile bio, and chat(currently dev only...?). The GM notes seconds on tokens, characters, and journal entries, the bio section on characters, the text section on journal entries, and the message entry box in the forums all appear to use the same WYSIWYG editor, or nearly enough. They do not use Markdown for formatting. In general, pasting HTML into these fields works, by and large keeping the text as it was originally copied. I know I have successfully pasted monster stat blocks from DDI into the character bio field without incident, so I am surprised it's not working on the token's GM notes field.