Global Customizations: MOTD (Login page message) preserve line breaks and other markdown culprits

[BigRoy]

Story

You want to really perfect your login page, with nice info too. But unfortunately

hello
my
world

Comes out: hello my world

And:

Welcome at AYON studio.
We are the cool kids.

Comes out on multiple lines with the URL, but lacks the line break where I want it.

To reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Put in some nice messages, like the examples above.
2. Formatting should be similar.

Expected behavior

• No automatic line breaks around URLs
• Preserve regular line breaks

Environment

• Server version:
• Server host OS:
• Browser:
• Client version:

Additional context

[Innders]

1. The MOTD input box is not a markdown editor so those line breaks probably mean nothing when submitting the data.
2. Looks like links are forcing a line break incorrectly in how the markdown is rendered. This is a CSS thing.

[BigRoy]

1. The MOTD input box is not a markdown editor so those line breaks probably mean nothing when submitting the data.

Could it be? Or is that complicated? Maybe the backend could define a tag for that on the string attribute so that it spawns a Markdown editor instead?

[martastain]

1. The MOTD input box is not a markdown editor so those line breaks probably mean nothing when submitting the data.

Could it be? Or is that complicated? Maybe the backend could define a tag for that on the string attribute so that it spawns a Markdown editor instead?

We have code editor somewhere (used in the raw settings editor) so maybe SettingsField could accept syntax argument when widget is set to textarea.

[martastain]

BTW: single line break in markdown shouldn't break the line. It is implemented like that sometimes in the wild, but you should use \n\n to get a new paragraph

[Innders]

I really think this so low priority we shouldn't waste time on it, extremely cosmetic.