Resolve markdown to HTML within card description tooltip
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feature: description
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- JavaScript
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Description
When using markdown within a card's description, the corresponding tooltip on the card's description icon should show the text converted to HTML.
Currently the source markup text is shown:

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Research direction
Start at the card description tooltip entry point and trace how the description text is prepared for display. Compare the tooltip output with the card's markdown handling; done means markdown in a card description is rendered as HTML in the tooltip instead of showing source markup.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100