# Polls : HTML / Markdown Support?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-html-markdown-support/66678
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [July 23, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-html-markdown-support/66678 "2017-07-23T17:45:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@RobMeade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RobMeade)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2017, 5:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-html-markdown-support/66678/1 "2017-07-23T17:45:48Z")
Hi,
I have just put a quick poll together to ask a couple of questions. I wanted to provide some _detail_ against each option (a paragraph of text) and thought that this looked a little messy with the text of the option. I popped an html BR tag in to push things down to the next line of text, the preview on the right looked a lot better.
Whilst experimenting I also added div tags and a couple of urls (using the option from the toolbar which inserted the markdown).
When I posted the topic all of the html and markdown got displayed as plain text.
Is there a reason why either html or markdown are not supported within the polls, or, have I tried using them incorrectly in this context. I appreciate that the polls are probably supposed to be fairly _lightweight_ but being able to offer a more rich experience (especially with the links) I would have thought would be beneficial?
Any info received gratefully ๐
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Example;
_Poll ([view on site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-html-markdown-support/66678/1))_
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-html-markdown-support/66678/2 "2017-07-23T18:10:53Z")
_Poll ([view on site](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-html-markdown-support/66678/2))_
Interesting, it looks OK in preview, but not when posted:
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2017, 6:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-html-markdown-support/66678/3 "2017-07-23T18:28:17Z")
Bookmarked will sort out monday
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### Author:  [@RobMeade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RobMeade)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2017, 6:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-html-markdown-support/66678/4 "2017-07-23T18:38:24Z")
Exactly @jomaxro, I must admit I wasnโt even sure that I _could_ use any of the html or markdown initially, but as the preview looked awesome I thought โgreatโ ๐
@sam - oooh, great, thanks - wasnโt if it was supposed to work with the mark up / down or not but guessing it is, so a fix would be really welcomed - thank you ๐
I am also relieved I will not be bashed with a copy of HTML for Dummies ๐
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-html-markdown-support/66678/5 "2017-07-25T17:39:41Z")
OK, great catch fixed per:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/8317fb12e0f9e6f0ce48ff1d3f7a7c10ca4f86d1](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/8317fb12e0f9e6f0ce48ff1d3f7a7c10ca4f86d1)
I will get this fix deployed on standard / business tier later today.
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### Author:  [@RobMeade](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RobMeade)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-html-markdown-support/66678/6 "2017-07-25T17:46:16Z")
Fantastic! Thanks @sam, really appreciated ๐
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/polls-html-markdown-support/66678/7 "2017-07-26T22:00:13Z")
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