# Topic form templates do not have smart lists
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-form-templates-do-not-have-smart-lists/367479
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** composer, form-templates
**Created:** [May 24, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-form-templates-do-not-have-smart-lists/367479 "2025-05-24T14:47:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [May 24, 2025, 2:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-form-templates-do-not-have-smart-lists/367479/1 "2025-05-24T14:47:57Z")
When creating a topic using a form template, e.g. in the #site-feedback:theme-feedback category, smart lists are not enabled.
When making a bullet point, either using a dash (-) or a number (1.), upon pressing the return/enter/newline button, the next bullet does not appear, unlike it usually doing so in post composers.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2025, 1:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-form-templates-do-not-have-smart-lists/367479/2 "2025-05-26T01:28:13Z")
This feels a bit like a #Contribute > Feature to me vs bug.
I am not sure how easy porting the code would be, thoughts @renato I recall you worked on templates a fair bit.
Does not feel urgent, but is probably a nice touch.
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### Author:  [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)
#### Post date: [May 26, 2025, 2:52am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-form-templates-do-not-have-smart-lists/367479/3 "2025-05-26T02:52:29Z")
I drafted a “composer” field type for form templates not so long ago, but it wasn’t finished and got stale:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/31584](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/31584)
I think this path with an explicit “composer” type and working for both editors by reusing `DEditor` makes sense.
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### Author:  [@gormus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gormus)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2025, 6:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-form-templates-do-not-have-smart-lists/367479/4 "2025-07-04T06:34:51Z")
I’d love to see a composer field type available in form templates. It could really help us with some of the plans we had to put on hold, because there is no rich-text support yet.
Any chances this feature to be revisited? : )
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### Author:  [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2026, 3:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-form-templates-do-not-have-smart-lists/367479/6 "2026-01-29T15:39:07Z")
This is possible now with the new `composer` form template type, introduced with [FEATURE: add composer form template field type (#31584) · discourse/discourse@c8de2f6 · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/c8de2f68b01cda4da23710a65d304fb19a181e2e).
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### Author:  [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2026, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-form-templates-do-not-have-smart-lists/367479/8 "2026-01-30T22:00:32Z")
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