[bug]: Markdown ignored - rendered as plain-text in work items
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Description
Is there an existing issue for this?
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Current behavior
When issues/PRs sync from GitHub to Plane, markdown formatting in the description is rendered as literal text.
The same underlying issue affects manual paste.
It appears that when both text/html and text/plain are present, it consumes text/html first and the tiptap-markdown extension's transformPastedText path is never reached.
Expected: GitHub issue descriptions render with proper markdown formatting in Plane.
Actual: Raw markdown syntax is displayed as plain text.
The topic of broken markdown formatting has been raised since 2023, but I have not found other issues for the impact it has related to the github integration specifically so maybe this is new -- but it makes the github integration unusable.
Steps to reproduce
For GitHub integration:
- Connect to github
- Sync github Issues / PRs as Work Items
- Create Issue / PR in github with markdown formatting
- See error
For manual paste:
- Copy markdown-formatted text from Github issue
- Create a Work Item in Plane
- Edit the Work Item description
- Paste from your clipboard
- See error
Environment
Production
Browser
Google Chrome
Variant
Cloud
Version
v1.2.3
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First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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