Full markdown support in Chat

[37Rb (Ryan)]

It would be nice if the Chat window had full markdown support. Currently, it appears to intentionally not render markdown headers, as discussed here.

Markdown headers aren't interpreted in Chat

The Chat window seems to interpret most markdown such as bold, italics, tables, lists, etc… but it doesn’t interpret headers. For example, if I post the following ### Hello This is a test. in a both topic and in a chat, it will render as a header in the topic but in the chat it will show the ### as 3 pound signs. Is this intentional? Or a possible issue?

I agree that most people would not type markdown headers in a chat but LLMs might. As chatbots are becoming more common, it would be nice if any markdown sent by an LLM displayed correctly in the Chat window.

With RAG support bots in particular, the LLM receives raw post content from topics which may contain markdown headers. If it includes those headers in the chat reply, they don’t work as is.

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

My users are using AI mostly in chats (both DAI and Chatbot) and broken headers are a bit annoying. For me, ordinary users just don’t care

But what bugs me the most is when I copy those chat messages to a topic those quoted headers stay broken.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

We hear you and are thinking about this problem.

[joffreyjaffeux]

We now support headings in chat:

FEATURE: adds support for headings in chat (#29552)

[Jagster (Jakke Lehtonen)]

Including ones that are copied/quoted to topics?

[joffreyjaffeux]

Yes it will work