Markdown bold + italics

💬 Mobile
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When I want to have a text appear in bold italics, the markdown code ("") works fine in the Andorid-emulator in the browser, but on the mobile phone, '' is displayed as bold without italics.

What do i have to do to display bold italics?
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Sebastian

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Hey @Poly, welcome back to the Retool Community!

I attempted to test this issue on my mobile app. Could you clarify which method you're using to apply bold or italic formatting in text components?

In my case, using HTML tags inside the Text component's Markdown field doesn't seem to work on mobile—it might be a bug. Interestingly, the same HTML works fine in the web app.

However, the default Markdown syntax works perfectly on both the browser and mobile app.
For example:

  • **_Hello_**
  • ***Hello***

Both render correctly across platforms.

Here are the screenshots for reference:

Web App:

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Mobile App:

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If you're experiencing a different issue, please share more details so I can help you better.

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Hi,

thank you for your detailed answer!

I was using the "***" markdown.

This is what I entered in the web-editor and what is displayed: (all correct)

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And this is what it looks like on my Android phone, where it just doesn't display any italics at all, bold or not:

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I also tried the HTML tags - which do not work inside a Text-element as you already pointed out, - but I found that they do inside a HTML-element. But the result was the same: everything is fine in the web-editor, but no italics on the mobile phne.

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Hello @Poly,

I tried your markdown syntax on my mobile app, and it worked perfectly — which is quite surprising. It’s possible that Retool’s mobile app may not fully support all Markdown features in the Text component, especially on certain devices or versions. The desktop version seems to handle Markdown more reliably.

Here is my Screenshot

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I believe it would be helpful for the Retool team to look into this so the issue can be fixed and better guidance can be provided for resolving it.

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Hey @Poly Good to have you back in the Community forum! :wave:
Just checking in, are you still experiencing this issue? If so, have you tried updating the app to the latest version?

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Hi @ChiEn, thanks for asking!
I have installed version 3.194.0 on my Android phone and the issue still exists.

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Hey @Poly can I please have an export of your app to test out? Thank you!

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Hi @ChiEn ,

sure thing. I placed 2 lines of test-text, one in mardown and the other in HTML, right at the bottom of the entry-page.
Bees (4).json (231.2 KB)