Hi!

https://docs.qgis.org/3.34/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins/plugins.html#metadata-txt says for the fields "about", "description" and "changelog": "no HTML allowed"

But actually we *can* use some HTML (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/richtext-html-subset.html I assume). The plugin's information will be nicely rendered at least in QGIS' plugin manager. <img> does not seem to work, it just shows a placeholder. Clicking an <a> makes the plugin manager display a white page and open my system's web browser with the URL. But other formatting things work well.

Example image: https://matrix.osgeo.org/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.wheregroup.com/nKHOTGcYWWpYqQKNWaSjuFbu/html%20in%20metadata.txt.png

It would be super useful for me in a non-public plugin so I wonder:

- Does "no HTML allowed" refer to the display in the official plugin repository https://plugins.qgis.org only? - Is it a bug that we can use some HTML in those fields or can we rely on it for the future?

I am a bit torn between "oh yay, we can add some more detailed information in a nicely formatted way" and "oh dear lord this might lead to complex chaos in plugin descriptions".

Cheers, Hannes

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